Claudia Goldin: evaluation

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…How much do you think the trans movement will, in fact, disrupt feminism by breaking down the two traditional categories, men and women? If someone wants to say, “The ratio of men to women in this area is that,” the trans movement could say, “We can’t quite presume that,” and blur the entire comparison. Is that going to matter moving forward? Or is that temporary? I don’t know. I don’t think any of this is temporary. If anything, I would applaud the fact that we are smoothing over gender and moving . . . I would think that in the greater scheme of things, that is a move towards greater equality in the sense that individuals — there is fluidity in who they are. I’m not quite certain what to do with it, but I applaud it. When you read The New York Times wedding announcement page, what honestly do you think? I tend to think two things: “My goodness, these elites are remarkably creative and self-replicating,” and then it strikes me how much people who are not religious at critical points in their lives actually want to invoke religion for the ceremony, but then it’s often just discarded again. That’s what I actually think when I read that page. What do you actually think?…

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