that's a good way to miss most of what's actually going on, but it's progress from the norm, so sure, go ahead and do that
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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
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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Replying to @CandyForYrEnnui @butaflye
"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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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
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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Replying to @CandyForYrEnnui @butaflye
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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Replying to @chaosprime @butaflye
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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