It's obviously a thing to refer to, if you have money you can say it's not real all you want but at the end of the day you're still gonna be able to afford food and shelter. I think this is sort of my confusion with nonbinary stuff. They say gender isn't real, is a social-
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construct. Maybe they've been traumatized by it, want to exist outside of it. This sounds fine, legitimate, valid, I get it. But gender, like money, affects you in real, concrete ways, regardless of your relationship to it.
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Saying you're not a woman feels like insisting you don't have money. Like, I understand you believe that, and I understand your relationship to money is different than mine, but at the end of the day the practical effects from this giant social illusion *still exists*.
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To me, I process gender as something close to the "practical effects from this giant social illusion." I think I process nonbinary identities as "expression of distaste for, trauma from, or feeling trapped by this social illusion." Both of these categories seem valid to me.
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P.S. - some of you are harping on my use of the word 'real.' Yes I get money is real. I get social constructs are real things. I was using 'not real' to allude to the fact they are constructs, non-absolute, relative, etc.
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Substitute “money” for “twitter” and your statement is equally true
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Social constructs are real. Sex is more than a social construct but it’s not a distinct physical entity.
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Gender is not a social construct though. If gender was a social construct, how would you explain transgender people? They're completely socialized to be one gender (aligning with their genitals), but they still identify as the opposite gender.
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But neither is the concept of gender limited to biology. There's nothing biologically requiring that women's pants shall not have pockets, for example. There is a whole mountain of social construction piled on top of the biological core of gender.
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