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Mal_Fet posted...

This is why it's so strange that people who say gender is a construct of society often say, as if they had authoritative knowledge, that gender is also a spectrum and advocate for laws to punish people who don't fit into their social construct. It could be considered that if that's how you personally saw gender, but you can't declare to others that is the case. One could just as easily say "there are two genders according to the social construct I inhabit". How can you tell them they're wrong?

i feel like you're not getting what people mean when they talk about social constructs. when someone says "gender is a social construct" they are talking about the gender binary.

they're saying that we as a society have collectively agreed that there are two genders, male & female, and because we have all agreed upon this, it's been basically willed into existence when there is (in the sake of the social construct argument) really no such thing as a rigid gender.

so when say that someone could go "there are two genders according to the social construct i inhabit," that's basically verifying the same thing as the above. if you're agreeing that gender is a social construct, you're essentially arguing the same way you'd agree that paper money has no inherent value.
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