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In the popular imaginary of the present, John Money is most often cast as the quintessential social constructionist; as someone who claimed that gender is solely an effect of enculturation and as such, is radically mutable and alterable. For some, Money's purported theory of gender as an effect of nurture (as opposed to nature), mad him "on of the gurus of the (second-wave) feminist movement" a characterization that seems to sit uncomfortable with Money's criticism of what he saw as feminism's "conceptual neutering of gender." For others, Money's clinical attempts to "prove" his theory have particularly light of the David Reimer case shown his ideas to both flawed and dangerous and his practice to be unethical. Interestingly, in one of the most influential popular cultural texts on Money, as natural made him; the boy who was raised as a girl, John Colapinto's characterization of Money as a constructionist is an inferential effect of the authors narrativization of a world of goodies and baddies, truth and lies, fact and fiction, males and females, rather than something that is convincingly argued through a close engagement with Money's writings despite this, Colapinto's text, and in particular his view of Money as a constructionist, seems largely to be taken as gospel.
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