Doing gender
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Oct 7, 2026
James LindsayHOST
Um, it will, you will hear it on a, uh, New Discourses podcast.
James LindsayHOST
I don't know what order these will come out in according to when I've recorded them, but it's about the paper from nineteen eighty-seven called Doing Gender.
James LindsayHOST
And there is some phrasing, [clears throat] some phrasing in that paper that really made me think.
James LindsayHOST
Um, and I've been thinking about it for days now ever since I read it.
James LindsayHOST
And I think it's one of those points where, you know, you don't wanna read too much into anything, but you do want to extract, like, important points, and this one's a big one.
James LindsayHOST
And so the paper is about the idea of doing gender.
James LindsayHOST
I'm not gonna, like, rehash the whole point of the paper.
James LindsayHOST
But the idea is effectively that there's your sex, that's what you are, which they cast as a socially agreed upon phenomenon instead of a aspect of reality, but I digress.
James LindsayHOST
Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay.
James LindsayHOST
You are listening to the New Discourses podcast and we have to ask, are we really doing gender? So what am I recording gender theory again for? Well, because at the moment it looks like we're actually doing pretty well.
James LindsayHOST
I don't want to be overly optimistic.
James LindsayHOST
But it looks like we're actually doing pretty well in the fight against gender medicine, as it gets called.
James LindsayHOST
Most of it, it's long enough to cover and one episode, one long episode, I think, if we cut out a section that I don't think is particularly important.
James LindsayHOST
I never hear this paper talked about, but it's extremely important.
James LindsayHOST
The paper is called Doing Gender.
James LindsayHOST
It was written in 1987 by Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman.
Depeche LoadHOST
It's true.
Depeche LoadHOST
Have I told you about the thing that I'd say? I don't know if I said this on the pod, but I've kind of been using this phrase doing gender like in place of non-binary or just to describe people that are doing gender in a kind of gender way.
Depeche LoadHOST
because I felt like non-binary almost like it's too restrictive as a concept like when you think of non-binary you think of a specific type of person probably thinking of like a white annoying non-binary person with coloured hair which is obviously a stereotype and there are many different variations of that
Beef StroganoffHOST
yeah minimum two disabilities
Depeche LoadHOST
But also I think it's, it's a bit like bear and twink and whatever and masculine femme at some point becomes the oppressor of itself.
Depeche LoadHOST
Um, or the term becomes limiting to what people's views are or something.
Depeche LoadHOST
Cause you can't just have like, three things to represent everything it's like it's like there's two genders to represent the two ends and then everything else in the middle is one thing but that's why i'm like doing gender it's like this because it's like what kind of gender are you doing today
Beef StroganoffHOST
yeah are you doing