biological sex is also a social construct
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Replying to @butaflye @chaosprime
Ummm nope. Unless of course you think that everything is a social construct and nothing really exists.
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Replying to @huckleterryfinn @chaosprime
it relates to ~real physical things~, but the boundaries and definitions we use are socially constructed
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Replying to @butaflye @chaosprime
That's true for literally everything. That's how language works.
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Replying to @huckleterryfinn @chaosprime
ok why are you so adamant on gender, but not biological sex, beïng a social construct, then?
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Replying to @butaflye @chaosprime
Because I think language is a useful tool and it makes sense to reflect relevant and obvious differences in language.
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Replying to @huckleterryfinn @chaosprime
what's the ~relevant and obvious difference~ here though?
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Replying to @butaflye @chaosprime
Potential role in procreation. If I add a new rat to my pet rats it's vital I know if it's male or female.
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Replying to @huckleterryfinn @butaflye
the thing about this is that the usual social construction of biological sex is as the binary you use here, it's either male or female
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
and if you take that as your lens you can go around seeing it all day, and exceptions are freaks for your titillation or disgust
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but if you don't privilege the lens for a minute it's very quickly clear that "male" and "female" are statistical neighborhoods
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
and then you see how social construction isn't just descriptive, it's coercive, with millions of babies cut up or murdered to enforce it
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
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