Philip N CohenApropos of nothing: More social scientists should see identities (including *both* gender & race/ethnicity) as (a) fractional rather than absolute, (b) potentially flexible instead of fixed, (c) determined by ongoing experience as well as ascription, and (d) subject to negotiation
E.g., from the news: I think it's nonsensical to insist transmen who have babies must be considered 100% man. And however much Rachel Dolezal deserves your hate, a White woman who bears and raises Black children might genuinely consider herself partly Black. Slogans don't illuminate these situations
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