The hashtag of #lettoysbetoys is popular on social media and encourages users to post signs of gender discrimination in stores, or positive examples of progressive gender-neutral marketing.
But does women's boxing offer anything more than a vehicle for progressive gender politics?
Their experiences are radically divergent – but a few simple policy changes coupled with the adaptation of more progressive gender roles would make a world of difference for nearly all of them.
Last year, the government introduced some of the most progressive gender recognition laws in Europe.
Each of the variables was first recoded as binary (i.e., yes or no) then summed to create a scale capturing the number of situations in which women do NOT accept the violence (scored 0 5), with higher numbers indicating lower acceptance of gender violence and more progressive gender norms.
As Bridges (2010) emphasises, drag (the explicit performance of gender for an audience) does not automatically produce politically progressive understandings of gender, and what counts as a progressive gender and sexual transgression is shaped by both its context and its performance.
It's all the more surprising because Dunham, a self-described feminist, seems unaware that the progressive gender politics she embraces have a long and frustrating history of relegating race to the sidelines.
With some pretty progressive gender politics for a big-budget car smasher, Fury Road went above and beyond what's expected of a geeky action flick.
Transgenic mice bearing a polyQ-expanded human AR reproduce many aspects of Kennedy disease, including slowly progressive, gender-specific motor deficits and neuronal intranuclear inclusions (Chevalier-Larsen et al., 2004).
It was progressive, gender-wise, race-wise.
Three years later, Argentina passed the most progressive gender-identity law in the world.
