spiderwort@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIdentity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time.message-squaremessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down13
arrow-up1-2arrow-down1message-squareIdentity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time.spiderwort@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoBut it didn’t become a big thing till the last decade, IE when we all got on social media. A hundred genders. New pronouns. This is a new thing.
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoDo you mean gender identity? That’s not the same thing as identity politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoNope, I mean identity politics. IE popular concern for the details and ramifications of identity, so great that it rises into the political realm. Tell me that you didn’t notice.
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agohey look the monkeys are upvoting you
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoThere has always been hundreds of genders, and it’s always been a political lynch pin: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis
But it didn’t become a big thing till the last decade, IE when we all got on social media.
A hundred genders. New pronouns. This is a new thing.
Do you mean gender identity? That’s not the same thing as identity politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
Nope, I mean identity politics. IE popular concern for the details and ramifications of identity, so great that it rises into the political realm.
Tell me that you didn’t notice.
hey look the monkeys are upvoting you
There has always been hundreds of genders, and it’s always been a political lynch pin: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis