Phallogocentrism as cultural abuse of sex is a difficult issue that has been addressed by many modern Western feminist philosophers. By comparing their insights with those deriving from Chinese Confucianism and Daoism, I propose the concept of “affectionate respect” as an intellectual counterbalance to phallogocentrism. In this essay, I have discussed certain arbitrary fallacies based on masculine predominance and spotlighted the merits of being female in balancing emotion and reason, justice and fairness, and institutionally-biased powers and the human rights of innate dignity. To achieve gender justice and equality before God and under Heaven must be logically and morally extended to law and politics.
. [J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2017, 12(3): 483-504.
SHAN Jiangdong. On Affectionate Respect in Gender Justice: An Inquiry into the Cultural Abuse of Sex. Front. Philos. China, 2017, 12(3): 483-504.