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Originally Posted by GGG
I’d say it would be immaterial at least to me. I’d probably assume I was male only because I used to be male and people treated me as male but if this digital world my Avatar was female I don’t think it would cause me pain or feel like the body was not mine after a few months.
Most instances of people describing Gender appear to just be societal constructs.
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This is one of the reasons transgenderism is controversial in feminist circles. Feminist theory long held that gender is a social construct. That patriarchal societies assigned behaviours and feelings to genders in order to confine them to roles. If we cast off those categories, if we stop assigning meaning to ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, then we will cast off gender. In such a society, the notion of being misgendered would be nonsensical.