At a stretch you could argue that you were assigned a sex by nature. Or God if that’s your thing.
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Replying to @Alisdisgrace @zaelefty
Even that would imply there was a ‘you’ prior to your sex. We don’t ‘have’ a biological sex; we *are* a biological sex. It’s like age or height: we wouldn’t say we ‘have’ 30 years old or 5’5”. Only difference is that these characteristics *can* change and sex can’t.
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They change, but you can’t change them - without severe health implications. My hair was brown when I was born. It is still brown. I wasn’t assigned brown hair, I have brown hair. I am brown-haired. I am more than the colour of my hair, but that remains the colour of my hair.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @twitone and
I hate to entertain this philosophical bullshit but look if you bleach brown hair blonde it literally scientifically is blonde That's the color it "scientifically" is You can tell by looking at it Either with the naked eye or with instruments, the color is the same
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Replying to @arthur_affect @twitone and
If you leave it, the natural colour grows back.
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Replying to @fletcherkathy8 @twitone and
Nah if you cut off a lock of hair and save it it stays the same color for years
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fletcherkathy8 and
What you mean is that *new* hair grows that is a different color from the color of the hair that's there now That doesn't contradict anything I said
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fletcherkathy8 and
Nonsense. The cells in your body are replaced every few years, but the underlying biology which determines the new cells can't be rewritten. You can take hormones, but you can't rewrite DNA or swap chromosomes.
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Replying to @unwitod @arthur_affect and
The metaphor works. You can dye your hair, and achieve a simulcra of, for e.g, blonde hair. This can appear to others to be more or less convincing, depending. If you leave it, the natural colour grows back. The biology which produces the brown is unchanged.
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No if the color of the hair changes then that's the color it actually is, it's not a "simulacrum" of anything The human obsession of wanting to know what would "naturally" happen in the absence of this or that is common but misguided and rude
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fletcherkathy8 and
No, you're trying to twist language in a daft way. People make the distinction between being 'a natural blonde' and not routinely. Are you trying to say we shouldn't? It is only rude to point out this fact in certain contexts Again, the metaphor works
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Replying to @unwitod @fletcherkathy8 and
Being extremely inquisitive as to whether someone's hair color is "natural" is in fact a pretty rude thing to do
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