but if you don't privilege the lens for a minute it's very quickly clear that "male" and "female" are statistical neighborhoods
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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Is there something that *isnt* described using social constructs? Seems like you're using it as synonymous with "socially made language" /1
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yup you caught me, lol. to me, to a large extent it's just about a degree of humility about the tools you're using, map != territory
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and maybe that seems like something everybody knows but i bet you've seen how fast people forget it if nothing reminds them of it
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