I think you are missing the ‘invalidating’ part here, and I feel you are going along with harmful rhetoric. If rad fem really believed that gender were a mere social construction they would have no notion if ‘real women’ to reserve for cis women.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @PsychScientists and
Yes, of course. TERFs immediately will turn a debate on gender (when discussing trans women) as being the same as penis = male. That is not social AT ALL.
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Replying to @o_guest @PsychScientists and
Exactly. I’m just so puzzled that the inconsistencies in reasoning are not apparent.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @o_guest and
Perhaps because of cognitive bias?
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
Well, I believe that both our rational discourse and logical analysis are highly influenced by the "structure" of the world we possess. E.g., an implication (A then B) can be obvious in a familiar context and neglected in an alien one.
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Replying to @twitemp1 @IrisVanRooij and
I think I probably agree with you but I am not sure without an example in the context?
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
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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Replying to @twitemp1 @IrisVanRooij and
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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Also pretty much all social constructs do have a biological substrate. The law is real and has a biological substrate as well, e.g., police officers and judges are part of the biological (as well as other aspects) aspects of the law. Gender is both biological and social.
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The problem arises when you try to say gender is only 100% exactly what I say. That's gender fascism.
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