what's the ~relevant and obvious difference~ here though?
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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