Author: Laurens Buijs
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![[AGTRT-BA18] The woman embodies both Madonna and the whore, and only men who have integrated their feminine side can handle that](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/48006-img_7054-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BA18] The woman embodies both Madonna and the whore, and only men who have integrated their feminine side can handle that
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Among straight people I often feel like a gay man, but among gay people I feel like a straight man. When I am among straight people I immediately feel that I am “different.” I do not have a typical heterosexual marriage with a wife, mortgage, children, steady job. I…
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![[AGTRT-BF36] Essentialist thinking about gender is especially evident among feminists and Christians](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/a8cf7-img_7041-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF36] Essentialist thinking about gender is especially evident among feminists and Christians
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In previous blogs, we have covered TERF ideology. TERF stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Within the TERF community there is again a multitude of differences of opinion but there is agreement in that corner that transgenderism is undesirable, or else that transgenderism cannot exist and therefore…
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![[AGTRT-BF35] Gender-critical feminists are not necessarily against transgender people](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/7c144-screenshot-2024-01-25-at-02.35.33.png)
[AGTRT-BF35] Gender-critical feminists are not necessarily against transgender people
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The Guardian recently described that in the United Kingdom a number of employers have been taken to task by the courts for disadvantaging employees because of their gender-critical views. This is a good thing, freedom of speech is a great thing. What stood out was the…
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![[AGTRT-BF34] What conditions must moderate gender theories satisfy?](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ac518-moderate.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF34] What conditions must moderate gender theories satisfy?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In a series of reports, messages and blogs, we have outlined our search for a MotR (middle of the road) version of formal gender theory (FGT) in order to achieve a workable compromise between the various extremes, particularly between gender essentialism and gender co-essentialism. In AGTRT-BF32,…
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![[AGTRT-BA17] Sex workers are stigmatized in patriarchy, but are in reality sacred healers](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/31f7c-img_7003-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BA17] Sex workers are stigmatized in patriarchy, but are in reality sacred healers
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team From 2008 to 2018, I conducted research on sexuality and gender in the Amsterdam Red Light District. It was a great time. I learned a lot there about an important symbolic figure in any human society, and certainly the Amsterdam one: the whore. Because we now view the whore…
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![[AGTRT-BF33] Feminists and transwomen are allies rather than enemies: a rebuttal to Caroline Franssen of VOORZIJ](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8f8cc-img_6922-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF33] Feminists and transwomen are allies rather than enemies: a rebuttal to Caroline Franssen of VOORZIJ
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In late November, we clashed with the feminists of VOORZIJ for being critical of their intolerant and unscientific position on transgender persons, especially trans women (see AGTRT-BF23, AGTRT-BF24 and AGTRT-BF28). Our conclusion was that while FORSY opposes the label TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, or anti-trans-feminists), we…