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Would you agree that the simplest, most obvious solution to the wage gap and indeed every other politically significant, statistically-measured gender gap in existence is for all men to say they are women?
That is to say, "whoever says they are a woman is a woman" is indeed simple, in atomic isolation. It is also completely incoherent with, at a minimum, the entire edifice of Feminism. When people say that the progressive position is not simple, they do not mean that the definitions offered have too many words, but rather that the position is evidently incoherent, and that this incoherent state is only maintainable in a safe space and with an ocean of squid ink.
Hah, this immediately made me think of Dr Seuss's The Sneetches. That'd be an interesting state of affairs to live in.
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Only in the sense that it would decouple the gender wage gap from the sex wage gap. The sex gap would still exist. "Feminism" is too broad a church to say that any one idea is or isn't coherent with it, but replace the term with "anti-sexism" and it's instantly clearer that it can coexist happily with transgenderism. (Transgenderism cannot coexist happily with biological-female supremacists, but since when do we like them? Trans activists certainly don't pretend that Radical Feminists are anything but their enemies. There's no incoherence there, just open rivalry.)
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Actually, lizzardspawn, to whom my reply was directed, was very much accusing the progressive position of lacking a detailed definition at all; not complaining about it being insufficiently simple.
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