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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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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Jilcaesel
@Jilcaesel
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@Aella_Girl
As for me, it was not your use of the word “real” that I criticized, but theirs, where “they” are the people you were quoting. I think the people who are insisting “money isn't real, it's a social construct” are trying to pull the fallacy…
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Michael Barrett
@PapaBearett
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@Aella_Girl
It’s impossible to discuss complicated concepts on here with people who are only interested in proving you wrong. The 280 character limit doesn’t lend itself to complicated explanations, so you have to work with people to understand what they mean, but that’s no fun!