Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Gender as totemism  Gender is what anthropologist Claude Levi-Straussian structural anthropologists called a totemic principal ( see _The Savage Mind_ https://culturalstudiesnow.blogspot.com/2021/01/summary-totemism-by-claude-levi-strauss.html). It is a cultural structure analogized to a biological structure. Female/male (biological category ) is analogized by woman/man ( cultural category). Then the cultural category is elaborated to third terms that are not in biology. There are only two sexes , but third and fourth genders .

That they are a majority is a fact. That fact makes Foucault's claim false . Also, much of the minority have biologically determined preference , too ! You didn't get that ? There is evidence that epigenetic processes , i.e. Biological processes in the womb cause homosexual preference ; something reverses the Herero-sexual instinct . So, Foucault is wrong about much of the minority , too . Foucault is wrong that much homosexuality is socially constructed ; not all ; some go through a learning process. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic_theories_of_homosexuality

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