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| Source | Louis Proyect |
| Date | 16/03/19/02:23 |
| HOMOSEXUAL ORIENTATION OR alternating between homosexual and
heterosexual orientation is presented by sections of intellectuals and artists, especially to the youth as an unconventional, dissident, and radical form of behaviour, as a "way" to overcome outdated perceptions of women's position in society, about sexuality, as a "form of conflict with authority, based on the male-dominated society." It projects the concept that "sexual identity is something fluid", socially and linguistically constructed. This is the philosophical current of postmodernism and postmodernity that ultimately denies the objectivity of biological sex which is the basis for a predominantly heterosexual sexual orientation. It argues that "gender is not what we are, but what we do." It ignores or conceals the class factors that led to the different positions of the two sexes and the ruling classes in the evolution of society, from the primitive community household in the first class society onwards. In the passage from one socioeconomic formation to another, surplus products appear, produced to meet community needs. Some products were produced in excess due to the development of the means of production and work implements, the cultivation of land, herds, which came under the ownership of men who appropriated the surplus, the surplus product. The owner of the surplus began to distance himself from the need to work for survival, exploiting the work of prisoners of war, slaves. The woman could not overcome the inherent biological differences she had with her husband that render her more vulnerable in nature. To protect the need for the reproduction of the species, she could not stray far from the community household that lost its social character with the onset of the first class division of society, with the exploitation of man by man. Moreover, the need for wealth to be inherited by the "legitimate" offspring of the man was established. In this way, the domination of the man over the woman was institutionalized at both an individual and social level. By bypassing the social causes which imposed overwhelmingly different social behaviours between the sexes, these theories lead to the denial of the biological differences between men and women, ultimately denying the objectivity of biological gender identity. On this basis, the idea that every person belongs, in a natural and inevitable way to one gender is considered to be an error. These theories render absolute the very real impact society has on a series of perceptions about gender (which often act in the direction of legitimizing inequality and discrimination against women). full: inter.kke.gr/en/articles/On-The-Cohabitation-Agreement/ |
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