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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TIL my dick is a social construct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Gender ≠ Sex

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Was this part of an actual thought, or....?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, we should go the other way and have more reveal parties for other genetic traits, and elevate them to the same level of perceived importance as apparent biosex! Let's have blood type reveal parties! Joint mobility reveal parties! Relative nose and eye position reveal parties! Relative limb length reveal parties! Roof of mouth topology reveal parties! Single nucleotide polymorphism reveal parties!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oddly I think parties like this would be more beneficial to the child.

If my parents had thought to have a joint mobility party for me, then maybe my hip joint deformity would have been found in infancy, when it's treatable, and not when I was 17 after years of being told I had "growing pains".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I’m low key annoyed about the whole “it’s a social construct” to mean “it’s not real”. Social constructs are real as fuck and they can fuck you up good.

The economy is a social construct. Days of the week are a social construct. I still need to show up to work on Monday morning so I can give my socially constructed fiat currency to the grocery shop in order not to fucking starve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Some people push it like that, but that's not really what the observation is about. It's meant to highlight that it's not preordained. Life is mostly made up and we should learn to acknowledge that openly. Especially when aspects of that made-up-ness actively oppress people

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What bothers me is when people use that argument to advocate for replacing 'constructs' which evolved more or less naturally over tens of thousands of years, even before the dawn of civilization, with something deliberately engineered by individual humans. Is a cis-normative nuclear family the only way that it's possible to live? Of course not, but it's also what the vast majority of the population wants in their lives, which is why it's the standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is patently absurd. For one thing, the nuclear family itself is not currently what the vast majority of the population wants; if you look at the global population, both now and historically, the extended family is dominant. I might as well argue that children abandoning their parents and home is an unnatural construct, that's replacing the 'tribal' way of living that was natural for humans for millennia. I could further argue that (since the nuclear family only became the most common type in the US in the 1960s and 70s), it was done in corporate interests to sell more cars and suburban houses, and that it is in fact YOU that is slobbering all over corporate cock.

But I wouldn't make that argument, because it's reductive and, frankly, a bit silly to let a narrative take the place of actually reading some sociological studies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That’s a huge strawman jk. We really just want the hets to stop trying to harm/kill people that are different from them.

TEH GAYS WANT TO DESTROY THE FAMILY is vintage homophobia and really needs to go jk.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I motion we re-name them "genital reveal parties"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah let's reveal your child's genitals.. doesn't have the same ring to it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Better yet, don't even mention a child. Just invite all your friends to a Genital Reveal Party and see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Genital Reveal Party

Children welcome!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'd love to go to that kind of party, where rainbow cake is served along with a slice of anthropological oration. But even though I'm gay (and therefore supposed to accept every odd idea that comes along, apparently), I'm not sure gender is a "social construct" alone. There are so many other things that can play into it including hormones and body image and psychological stuff - yet I still feel it was so much easier and breezier when we could just call ourselves men or women or he or she. *(not that I'm against people calling themselves whatever else they want).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh! I'm going to present the following in good faith.

You're referring to sex. Sex is biological, gender is a concept. Sex is related to your hormones and your healthcare and what's in your pants, but the idea of masculinity or femininity being tied to specific behaviors or clothes is a social construct. (Gender.)

IE; I'm a woman. Very much a woman. Super secure in that. I've got all the parts, enjoy having them. When I go to the gym or when I drink my cousins under the table or when I work on a car, those things shouldn't be tied to an idea of being masculine, because I'm not suddenly more masculine for doing them. I'm definitely still a woman the whole time. That's the difference here, is that there's a concept of gender which is different than sex.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow careful with that logical thinking buddy, we don't like that here \s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Careful with them thar backslarshes, city boy, this ere is furwudslash country.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Aren't there skeletal differences that an anthropologist would point out?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The anthropologist might see skeletal differences but they'd also pay attention to the manner in which the subject was buried or what possessions survived with them that could also serve as clues of the subject's identity in life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Humans have sexual dimorphism, but it's a cultural thing that women wear skirts and men drink themselves to death instead of talking about their problems (both of these are jokes btw. I have a friend who wore kilts quite often and my mother drank herself to death)

Also, genetics is tricky, there a plenty of examples of people who do not fall into one category or another for these sexually dimorphic traits. There are people who have genetics from both sex, as well and differences in hormones distributions will causes these traits to appear or not appear.

Is a huge grey area.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're confusing sex with gender

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I want a sex reveal party. Who’s having sex in the bedroom right now? Let’s find out!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Isn't that basically what they did at weddings in times gone by?