This page is for responding to a specific point made in Feminism, maternalism and puerism — Do Children Need their Own Liberation Movement?
 This debate between nature and culture is, as philosophers know already, a pure waste of time (a false debate). The liberty of people regarding some 'natural' given does not eliminate the reality of this 'natural' given. If you say that you are a queer, and that your definitions of sexual orientation and personality are evolving and multidimensional, you still are talking about nature; no matter how unimportant you judge it to be, it still is the sole basis on which you are founding your definition of yourself. If you think that defining yourself is just idiotic, then you are an advocate of cultural/individual determinism. But you can't prove that you're right, because you would need to essentialize culture/the individual, something you would never do. The result is that we still have nature to deal with, and in this case some molecules (testosterone, oestrogen, progesterone) to deal with, while you non-theorize about non-essences. |
