According to Eric Vilain, anyway. You can find his article here (free registration required). I found this quote especially laughable:
Sex should be easily definable, but it’s not. Our gender identity — our profound sense of being male or female — is independent from our anatomy. A constitutional amendment authorizing marriages only between men and women would not only discriminate against millions of Americans who do not fit easily in the mold of each category, but would simply be flawed and contrary to basic biological realities.
OK, so because there are a handful of ambiguous cases, we should just throw out the concept of sex entirely. In any case, “male” and “female” are far more hard and fast terms than “old” or “young,” or “hot” or “cold,” yet we don’t throw those concepts out or view them as baseless social constructs. The idea that any category that isn’t 100% straightfoward is invalid is simply ridiculous, and Vilain’s argument is the same basic argument as the “race does not exist” argument with even less justification.
Posted by bb at 09:59 AM