Quote:Radical feminists aim to abolish gender. Not just transgenderism, but all gender. Not just femininity in women and girls, but masculinity in women and girls too. Not just the fashions and behaviors of domination and submission, but the referential paradigm of gender in our own minds. Can we even imagine what that would look like and feel like? We’re going to try here to imagine a non-gendered world, because we don’t think we can abolish gender unless we have an idea of how a non-gendered culture would look and feel, and unless we have a plan for getting ourselves to that place.

When gender is a pervasive system that each woman has internalized from the culture (as it surely must be to some degree), free choice in matters regarding our own presentations and behaviors is an illusion, because what feels like a choice is so heavily influenced by our  internalized system of gender. For this reason, radical feminists don’t primarily examine personal presentations and behaviors as to whether or not they were freely chosen; they ask whether particular presentations and behaviors support the liberation of the sex class composed of women and girls.

This article is not a criticism of any individual who engages in gendered behaviors, either intentionally or not. It is intended as a critical look at the existing system of gendered culture (i.e., a system of male domination and female submission), and as a plan for abolishing that system.