So, I find this bit is key. The rad-fem argument that gender is the social construction isn’t wrong. That’s literally how they defined the word so as to use it in specific political ways 1/a couple
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E.g., gender is "real" when evaluated in a familiar sector of the population, but it is a product of social construction when considered in a less familiar one. Here familiarity is a confounding factor.
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Social constructs are real. Or do you mean biological vs non? If so, that won't really help out a TERF PoV since they claim it's 100% social and then resort to vagina == woman, rendering their arguments incoherent and inconsistent.
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Yes ofc they are real! Bias control how ppl apply a given rationale in some cases but not in others:https://twitter.com/IrisVanRooij/status/1019866999013478401 …
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The funny thing is TERFs hate the word "cis" and yet for all intents and purposes use "real" to mean exactly EXACTLY the same thing.
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They also claim "cis" is a made up word (all words are made up) — but like "cis" is fucking Roman, you fucks! E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisalpine_Gaul …
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cis my ass
"From Proto-Indo-European *ḱe- (“here”). Cognate with ce-dō, hi-c, ec-ce, Ancient Greek ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos, “that”), Old Irish cē (“here”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌼𐌰 (himma, “to this”). More at he, here."
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cis#Latin
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