Giftedness as Other
What We Lose When We Label All Gifted People as Neurodivergent
“Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female.”
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir famously argued that “woman” is not born, but made. Rather than serving as a neutral identifier, womanhood is imposed through a set of traits and stereotypes shaped by society, especially by men.
In Beauvoir’s theory…
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