The Genesis of Gender
Discussions of “human nature” are implicitly essentialist, because they are concerned with defining a shared, underlying essence common to all human beings.
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For Butler, that statement is a foundational premise. Nothing is natural.
Abigail Favale • The Genesis of Gender
These are not terms culled from random blogs and discussion forums. These are all taken, verbatim, from official websites of American and British universities. While it might be tempting to eye-roll and hand-wave away what those “crazy college kids” are doing, I would make this reply: official websites are run by administrators, not students, and
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This is referring to the multiple, outlandish definitions of gender listed above this paragraph.
Accompaniment is a way of journeying with someone deeper into the heart of Christ. Contrary to the cliché, conversion is not a one-time zap; the Holy Spirit is not a fairy godmother who makes you insta-ready for the ball. Conversion is a steady pilgrimage, a long trek into the heart of God. There are detours and switchbacks along the way; none of
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Like Joseph, with his dream-coat of many colors, whoever sports the greatest array of marginalized memberships is awarded social dominance over peers.
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Creation accounts do not provide scientific truths about material origins; they reveal deeper truths: truths about identity—who God is and who we are—and purpose, the ends for which we are made.
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When de Beauvoir writes that one is not born but becomes a woman, she is driving a wedge between “woman” and “female”, arguing that “woman” is a social and cultural fiction that is layered onto the biological reality of femaleness. She writes this in the 1940s, prefiguring the postmodern turn. It didn’t take long for a movement centered on the idea
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I was going a step farther, confusing “understandability” with “knowability”. God is beyond our understanding, but he is nonetheless knowable, because he is able to make himself known. As a postmodernist, I focused all my attention on the inability of human language and understanding to reach out and fully grasp a divine being. I had lost sight of
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“I feel like I’ve been giving my students poison to drink”, I said. For so many years, I’d been careless, careless with their minds and, most disturbingly, their souls.