“It’s become popular to embrace trendy notions from postmodernism in some activist circles. This includes the idea that gender is a “binary”. But gender is not a binary: it’s a hierarchy, global in its reach, sadistic in its practice, murderous in its conclusion, just like race, just like class.
Gender demarcates the geopolitical bounderies of patriarchy. It divides us in half but it’s not a horizontal half. It’s vertical. Gender is not some cosmic yin and yang. It’s a fist and the flesh that bruises. It’s a mouth crushed shut and a girl who will never be the same.
Gender is who gets to be human and who gets to be hurt.”
— Female Erasure; chapter 23: The Girls and the Grasses by Lierre Keith; 2016
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