THÉORIE DU GENRE OU LA DÉFAITE DE L'ALTÉRITÉ I Antoine Mercier & Rav Sadin

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Hello everyone, hello Afsadine, hello Antoine. So, we're continuing our series on the major contemporary ideologies—these ways of thinking that are gradually invading minds and consciousness in the Western world, at least, but also everywhere else. We're going to tackle a big topic, if I may say so, since today we're going to analyze the discourse on the question of gender. As is our custom, inaugurated by a Jewish woman—let's never forget that—as is forget that—as is our custom, we're going to first try to understand precisely what the proponents of Gender Studies are saying. Without necessarily trying to distort what is said, we're going to see how this vision of gender, which is quite counterintuitive— the fact that there are gender studies and that gender is not obviously divided into two fundamental parts—could, a priori, we wonder how this gender theory, which was previously reserved for university studies, could have penetrated penetrated minds so easily, even though it was still... It's quite counterintuitive to think that people depended particularly on social conditions. We'll talk about that again, and then we'll see how the Tor (theoretic text) approaches this issue, the issue of masculinity and femininity, based on texts from the tradition that you're going to bring us. We'll start with a question of terminology because what's very interesting in ideological battles like this is often that we're interested in words, and words already say what you think about it. I remember, for example, during the Covid war, there was Mitterrand who said "covette" (he was for it), and

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1. 0:00Hello everyone, hello Afsadine, hello Antoine. So, we're continuing our series on the major contemporary ideologies—these…
2. 2:33studies" mean the study of gender, clearly indicating that it's not a theory, not an ideology,…
3. 5:38is to say that there is a difference between the biological and the historical and the…
4. 8:42constantly superior identity. Adam, being the same letters as "mod" (I specify Adam), means excess and…
5. 11:45acceptance of what their body offers as the secret of their life's plot. And we fall…
6. 14:49Torah, that man is created with yoo-soo, we write man was created with yoo-soo, which is…
7. 17:20masculine, it's not that we say that in both there is the secret. From a quest…
8. 20:24highest relationship, which gives birth to the third in physical life—it is the child. But symbolically…
9. 23:31of existing that I create the concept of essence. There is no pre-existing, closed essence, etc.…
10. 26:38true existentialism, which lies in this capacity to create absolutely new concepts. But don't let this…

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