It's sad/wearying/frustrating/all the negative things, yet also somehow poignant, how often it is overlooked that "race" and for that matter "gender" are superficial constructs based on compartmentalizing people when either we are genetically basically the same (the lie of race) or each of us has our own unique way of acting out our biol…
It's sad/wearying/frustrating/all the negative things, yet also somehow poignant, how often it is overlooked that "race" and for that matter "gender" are superficial constructs based on compartmentalizing people when either we are genetically basically the same (the lie of race) or each of us has our own unique way of acting out our biological sex (the essentialism inherent in discussions of gender). The poignancy comes from the all-too-human desire to cling to a label in the hopes that it will help determine and even perhaps justify identity. Alas!
It's sad/wearying/frustrating/all the negative things, yet also somehow poignant, how often it is overlooked that "race" and for that matter "gender" are superficial constructs based on compartmentalizing people when either we are genetically basically the same (the lie of race) or each of us has our own unique way of acting out our biological sex (the essentialism inherent in discussions of gender). The poignancy comes from the all-too-human desire to cling to a label in the hopes that it will help determine and even perhaps justify identity. Alas!