PC Feminism

The term “social construction” has entered the popular culture and vocabulary without being clearly defined in people’s minds. It refers to far more than merely deconstructing an idea or an institution, such as the court system, and then reconstructing it differently to serve a new vision. That process is merely the most visible aspect of social construction; it does not capture the theoretical underpinning of the term and its ultimate meaning.
Social construction theory is the beating heart of political correctness. Its many spin-off movements cannot be understood without a solid grasp of the concept. Otherwise, it becomes impossible to make sense of the political world surrounding us. Consider the subcategory of political correctness known as gender feminism.

The Social Construction of Gender

The theory that drives PC feminism reaches back to post-modern French philosophy which emerged in the 1940s and blossomed in the 1960s. (It is sometimes called post-structuralism.) Of the post-modernists, Michel Foucault probably had the deepest impact on gender or PC feminism. His popularity peaked in the late ’60s and early ’70s when PC feminism was radicalizing and absorbing the broader feminist movement, which had been liberal….(Read more)

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See also:

• Start of a bad ending: The Feminine Mystique
• Communism → second-wave feminism → social re-engineering
• Why Did Feminists Attack the Family?
• Some men want no sex – Outcome of female supremacism
• Seven Genders – Why not more?
• Gender recognition receives royal assent
• Fatherhood is dying out
• Children of the State