Posts Tagged ‘feminism’

Social Construct Quote of the Day

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Pundette comments on the Swedish couple who are refusing to publicly acknowledge their child’s sex, “based on the feminist theory that ‘gender’ is a ‘cruel’ ‘social construct’ that forces children into artificial roles”:

A woman would have to be the queen of denial to cling to that notion after pushing a baby out of her birth canal.

Via Stacy at The Other McCain, who calls it “The best birth canal quote of the year”.

I often see liberals criticize religion for generating insane ideas, like Young Earth Creationism. But folks, I swear, the idea that gender is a social construct is possibly the most insane widely accepted idea I’ve ever run across.