Listen now | Kit Kowalski and Edie Wyatt talk about the world of sex and gender from a gender-critical perspective, not just the culture war, but law, policy, activism, feminism and all the nonsense.
Perhaps the word EW was groping for was 'uncountable' which is used to distinguish between 'countable' and 'uncountable' nouns. I can't help feeling that there's something parochial, which is to say anglo-centric, about arguments surrounding the meaning of the word 'gender'. For speakers of romance languages, gender is strictly a grammatical concept and so even when referring to cultural meanings (as in 'gender non-conformity' or 'gender stereotypes') we still use the word 'sex'. A lot of these confusions just can't naturally exist in other languages and cultures, unless they're very forcefully imported.
On that score, I would have included Vaishnavi Sundar on your hit list of thinkers. Other GC femisists have mention some of her points here and there, but she really carries the torch for the view that gender ideology is a form of neo-colonialism in developing countries, presented as the latest science by the usual gangs of shyster NGOs in search of new markets abroad. This stuff will never get into Russia or China, not because they're smarter than us, but because dictatorships have the saving grace of viewing foreign NGOs with deep suspicion. For my money, Kathleen Lowrey also deserves a shout for being the only person to have looked at this in its historical context--- across millenia---so deep history; an analysis which I think is somewhat lacking from GC feminist who at most only go back 100 years.
Perhaps the word EW was groping for was 'uncountable' which is used to distinguish between 'countable' and 'uncountable' nouns. I can't help feeling that there's something parochial, which is to say anglo-centric, about arguments surrounding the meaning of the word 'gender'. For speakers of romance languages, gender is strictly a grammatical concept and so even when referring to cultural meanings (as in 'gender non-conformity' or 'gender stereotypes') we still use the word 'sex'. A lot of these confusions just can't naturally exist in other languages and cultures, unless they're very forcefully imported.
On that score, I would have included Vaishnavi Sundar on your hit list of thinkers. Other GC femisists have mention some of her points here and there, but she really carries the torch for the view that gender ideology is a form of neo-colonialism in developing countries, presented as the latest science by the usual gangs of shyster NGOs in search of new markets abroad. This stuff will never get into Russia or China, not because they're smarter than us, but because dictatorships have the saving grace of viewing foreign NGOs with deep suspicion. For my money, Kathleen Lowrey also deserves a shout for being the only person to have looked at this in its historical context--- across millenia---so deep history; an analysis which I think is somewhat lacking from GC feminist who at most only go back 100 years.