ricketyclick » social construct http://ricketyclick.com/blog Don't Expect Me to be Nice. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:54:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Social Construct Quote of the Day http://ricketyclick.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/30/social-construct-quote-of-the-day/ http://ricketyclick.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/30/social-construct-quote-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:18:22 +0000 Dave http://ricketyclick.com/blog/?p=3447 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.

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