Beauvoir’s difference from Butler matters because without sex, feminism loses its compass. If we cannot name sex, how do we name sex-based oppression?
What’s so scandalous, though, is that Pickard’s views aren’t even allowed. Clearly there’s strong disagreement about what Beauvoir was really saying, and in a sane world these differing takes should be discussed out in the open, but in the world of institutional gender-capture there can be no debate. Anyone who opposes the official line is not wrong, but evil. They can’t be debated; only silenced. It’s ideological capture – Stalinist-style ideological capture. And the bold “progressives” can’t even see it.
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