Letters to the Editor
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Re: Why does this person have this job?
Dude, the editors never read the comments. Except for the ones that agree with them.
As for the whole "gender is a social construct" idea, it should be said that anyone espousing such an idea is clearly so ignorant of the current state of research that they can safely be dismissed as a twit.
Within the scientific community, the notion of gender being a social artifice is considered a controversy, not the unassailable fact that Broadsheet believes it to be.
But I can understand where this is coming from: If one is indoctrinated within the enclaves of Women's Studies, one is unaccustomed to actually paying attention to facts that don't agree with the feminist Party Line.
Anyone who says that "gender is a social construct" is dealing in pure, unabashed faith, based on nothing apart from making repeated assertions which do little else but make feminists feel all good and righteous inside.
The fact of the matter is that every attempt to raise children in an androgynous environment has thusfar failed to eradicate gender differences. This is true for Israeli Kibbutzim and various 19th century Utopian movements which were made of True Believers and used methods far more throughgoing than anything which could be allowed in a free society.
But this should give plenty of comfort to those feminists who wish to claim that women are inherently morally superior to men.