Money isn't real. It's a social construct. Some people hate it, and live without it. Some people are traumatized by it. Some people want to burn it all. Some people love it, especially when they have a lot of it.
It still has a lot of power, even though it's not real and hated.1/
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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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That something is a construct does not implies it isn't real. Money is real because we made it so, and as long as we continue to do so.
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Ok yes I obviously don't believe that money just isn't a thing, I was using 'real' in the sense that the power of money isn't a physical thing we can measure. It is obviously 'real' in the sense that it has effects we can measure.
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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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I think the mistake is to oppose “real” and “social construct”, or to use such an ambiguous word as “real” in the first place. I think this works better: “Money is not natural, it's a social construct”.
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I'm down with trans people, they make sense to me. I'm more talking about nonbinary people.
And gender and sex arent' totally separated. For example, pregnancy is a big reason for a lot of norms around female behavior.
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