That's true for literally everything. That's how language works.
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Even if our current understanding of biological sex is misguided (it probably is), that doesn't mean it's just a social construct, does it?
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"sex is a social construct" doesn't mean we're not describing physical reality, it means we can only do so through a socially built lens
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we're talking about a thing, barring brain-in-a-jar hypothesis, but we can't embed a thing in our speech, only a social convention about it
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and "social construct" doesn't necessarily mean arbitrary or unmotivated or not bearing a correspondence to physicality
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Okay but we build all language through a socially built lens, and describing it that way takes some meaning out of describing gender as a /1
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Social construct, doesn't it? I mean gender literally is *just* a cultural thing. I guess I thought that was the big distinction
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gender is a social phenomenon described using a social construct, sex is a physical phenomenon described using a social construct
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so there are a lot of differences there but it's worth contemplating how the abstractions are leaky as hell in both cases
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that most mammals are male or female and that it makes sense to have words describing this.
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i am not trying to take away your words, but i am definitely trying to take away the simplistic usage of them
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(others may in fact wish to take away your words; i commend them on their apparently inexhaustible reserves of emotional energy)
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I know what's going on and I think it's imperative that people know intersex ppl exist and are valid. Doesn't make it any less true though
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