{"id":3227,"date":"2020-04-07T23:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T03:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2020-04-07T23:17:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T03:17:51","slug":"dembroff-kohler-hausmann-and-sugarman-on-what-taylor-swift-and-beyonce-teach-us-about-sex-and-causes-taylorswift13-beyonce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2020\/04\/07\/dembroff-kohler-hausmann-and-sugarman-on-what-taylor-swift-and-beyonce-teach-us-about-sex-and-causes-taylorswift13-beyonce\/","title":{"rendered":"Dembroff, Kohler-Hausmann, and Sugarman on What Taylor Swift and Beyonce Teach Us About Sex and Causes @taylorswift13 @Beyonce"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robin Dembroff, Issa Kohler-Hausmann, and Elise Sugarman, all of Yale University, are publishing What Taylor Swift and Beyonce Teach Us About Sex and Causes<\/a> in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the consolidated cases Altitude Express v. Zarda, Bostock v. Clayton County, and R.G. &amp; G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not Title VII prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Although the parties disagree as to the appropriate formulation of a but-for test to determine whether or not there was a discriminatory outcome, all parties do agree to the use of such a test, which asks \u201cwhether the evidence shows \u2018treatment of a person in a manner which but for that person\u2019s sex would be different.\u2019\u201d City of Los Angeles, Dep\u2019t. of Water and Power v. Manhart, 435 U.S. 702, 711 (1978). However, but-for tests confuse more than they clarify the inquiry; a discriminatory outcome cannot be explained by appeal to just a discrete characteristic of a particular person. Individuals are not discriminated against because of these characteristics per se. Rather, they are discriminated against because of the social meanings and expectations that attach to these characteristics. Beyonc\u00e9 and Taylor Swift illustrate the difference between individual-level causation and social explanation in two separate songs, \u201cIf I Were a Boy\u201d and \u201cThe Man.\u201d The explanation for why the counterfactual \u2018male\u2019 Beyonc\u00e9 and Swift are evaluated differently than their current \u2018female\u2019 versions does not lie in individual-level features considered apart from the social world, but in social-level roles and expectations associated with those features. For this reason, a social explanation test\u2014one that asks whether the social meanings of sex characteristics, rather than the characteristics per se, explain the outcome in question\u2014is more suitable for determining whether or not Title VII has been violated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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