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Gender construct?
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A society's picture of what a man or a woman should be like — it both describes a supposed nature and distributes roles.
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Femininity and masculinity as constructs?
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Built pictures (caring vs bold, and so on) used to sort people into roles — who leads, cares, is paid, serves.
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Why link yin and yang to female/male?
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They're framed as complementary opposites that balance to make a whole — a pair that completes, not a ranking.
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The careful question about 'complementary' framings?
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A frame can sound equal yet still distribute unequally — so test how the roles actually fall out.
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Sexism?
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Treating people unfairly on the basis of their sex or gender — from open barriers to the quiet steering of chances.
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Intersectionality?
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Forms of oppression (sexism, racism, class) overlap and combine into a distinct experience you'd miss looking at gender alone.
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Why does construction matter for justice?
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Roles that are made — not fixed by nature — can be judged, defended and changed; that's what lets us ask if they're fair.
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What does Section B (Evaluate) reward?
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Arguing the claim both ways with more than one view and reaching a reasoned conclusion — not describing.
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