Really? Rights are always based on social constructs, ultimately. Just look at the abortion debate. Not everyone agrees on what pregnant is because the bio and social are inseparable in the context of rights.
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Replying to @palmd @MarkHoofnagle and
Is your age socially constructed? Your sex is not. Although the fashionable idea is to deny this. Your sexuality is not. But if you you deny sex is material and objective then sexuality must be denied too. In what possible sense is this progressive?
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @palmd and
Yes age is socially constructed. We decided it starts at birth, because the definition predates understanding of reproduction. In the end we are all billions of years old - a continuous thread of life. And we chose a point along each split - arbitrarily - to age the individual.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @palmd and
How does your conception of age help us protect children from various forms of exploitation? "The person's age was a construct your honour. Perhaps they were billions of years old. That is why I tried to have sex with them". The mind boggles.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @MarkHoofnagle and
Funny how you leapt from a discussion of the arbitrariness of how we define people's age to pedophilia. Disturbing.
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and
David. The context was rights and protections and how we set objective standards in upholding those protections based on objective criteria like sex and age. But by all means, argue with those that wish to pretend such attributes are mere arbitrary "social constructions".
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @gorskon and
It is astonishing that no thinking person in the US, with a few exceptions like Ophelia B, has the courage to say that humans are sexed creatures and that their sex is a material fact. Are you prepared to say that?
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @gorskon and
Like the “courage” to say race is a fact? Clearly for example, white and black people are biologically different. It is known, right? Except not turns out they these differences are minimal and slippery and mostly empjasized by racists.
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Thank you for making your position clear. We can add you to the denialists of biological sex. For shame.
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Replying to @lecanardnoir @palmd and
You keep on using denialist to mean disagreement. That’s not how it works. You gotta at least have a conspiracy theory, it’s kind of a requirement.
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"Denialist." He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.pic.twitter.com/VlJCyzNLMj
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