Worth noting that the roles most reactionaries think are "traditional western gender norms" are, for the most part, a product of modernity and have only been applied to all of society fairly recently. The idea, for instance, that women shouldn't work outside of the house, has only ever applied to wealthy women in "the West". The fashions and presentational modes of modern "femininity" are a product of mass-production, a change in the nature of labor, and mass-marketing.
We don't need to prove to the reactionaries that we have always existed, because the very structure that they claim is concrete and exists in the material world is nothing more than an ahistorical misunderstanding of the history of gender in the first place. It's ideology. Other societies had far more than just "third genders". they addressed the social role of physical sex and any concept of performed gender in a completely different framework. What we have is a product of an invented "tradition" based on choosing some of the most openly misogynistic cultures in history to create a historiography of sex.
Worth noting that the roles most reactionaries think are "traditional western gender norms" are, for the most part, a product of modernity and have only been applied to all of society fairly recently. The idea, for instance, that women shouldn't work outside of the house, has only ever applied to wealthy women in "the West". The fashions and presentational modes of modern "femininity" are a product of mass-production, a change in the nature of labor, and mass-marketing.
We don't need to prove to the reactionaries that we have always existed, because the very structure that they claim is concrete and exists in the material world is nothing more than an ahistorical misunderstanding of the history of gender in the first place. It's ideology. Other societies had far more than just "third genders". they addressed the social role of physical sex and any concept of performed gender in a completely different framework. What we have is a product of an invented "tradition" based on choosing some of the most openly misogynistic cultures in history to create a historiography of sex.
Agreed. I mostly made the meme as a response to leftists I've run into who need to self-crit. It's a strangely common opinion even in left circles.
It's hilarious how recent (and also fragile) the western concept of the gender binary is.
Ah, you mean the "LGBTQIA+ issues are bourgeois decadence!" crowd
Good, they deserve to be constantly dunked on