Gender-Nihilism

Part one is about how they take a position of 'anti-humanism' vs the liberal 'humanism', this means that rather than thinking identity is genetic or internal, or even a social construct that is internalized absolutly, they think it's a matter of institutions of power changing social discource, such as psychology, language, media, ect, and rather than being absolutly internalized it's something that we navigate on a day to day basis, this means that gender nihilists consider themselves what they are seen as by those institutions of power, and to truely get liberation is to change those institutions rather than work within them (dressing like a 'woman' is dressing like one of those catagories of discource institutions of power create). They don't want to be men or women, but they accept that since these things are only constructs of power, that's what they are until that powers constitution is changed/destroyed; they do not all see themselves as a-gendered, but rather see everyone as genderless before interacting with these power structures. This is all very obviously inspired by Nietzsche. Part two is just arguments for these ideas; and arguments against other ideas, such as gender expansion or constriction. Again it is said what must be done is total negation. Part three is about how the destruction of these symbols and ideas completely may result in a total loss of self, and that their plan isn't to liberate a "true self" from the dominance of these things because a self of any kind doesn't exist without them. It is then restated that negative theoretical critique is what must occur and positive programs like gender expansion are harmful. Personally I can't tell if they mean the base (of the base-superstructure dichotomy) ought to be destroyed actively or they just advocate an armchair negative critique of everything, or both, but I guess that's another issue.

Nihilism is a loose term, but this form of nihilism believes that the self is entirely defined by social structure, and that at the core it is nothing until it interacts with said social structure, ye.

Also, they want to completely negate gender, so they accept that they may be advocating the complete loss of self, but it can't be known for sure what happens after so they're just like "fuck it lets just try to destroy everything, and if it doesn't work that will be fun at least". Which is verry much of an anarcho-nihilist thing.

Don't think it's really ego death, but more like loss of self in the community, like ants. But I don't know if that would feel any different.

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