Superiority, inferiority, and equality frames distort gender discussion.

Evidence

Every argument has its opposite, and both are often misleading. To see clearly, one needs to get out of these ruts; these vague notions of superiority, inferiority, and equality that have distorted all discussions must be discarded in order to start anew. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 62

Categorization

• XREF: Rejects the very comparative frame — superior/inferior/equal — that most gender debate still operates in; resonates against later equality-vs-liberation debates. — connects to: Biologizing women’s inferiority is scientifically baseless and ethically vacuous — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 104; Gender categories divide humans into female objects and male subjects; Openness rhetoric in open-source culture masks gender-exclusionary status hierarchies — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 173