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I'm fine with new genders. But while everyone likes to say that gender is a social construct, they tend to parrot the line without actually considering its meaning.
Yes, gender is a social construct. But that's exactly the thing - it's socially constructed! Genders as social constructs are made by the combined social interactions and negotiations of thousands if not millions of people. If you just sit down by yourself and try to invent a new gender to describe yourself, that's not a gender. That's just a nickname. Social constructs can only be made socially. That's the entire point of a social construct - a bunch of people getting together and coming up with some new label to describe some aspect of the word. Without that social element, you're just writing fanfiction. It's like that wiki of thousands of genders that was recently deleted. In truth, almost none of them were true genders, as they were almost all just created by individual teenagers acting alone.
This is the third time now I've removed one of your comments for this kind of gatekeeping of other peoples identity. You're no longer welcome in blahaj zone communities
Gender is a social construct, and if your friend wants a new gender and you won't help them socially construct it, you're a bad friend.
How does this not have any downvotes except mine
this is blahaj zone how did transphobia (which the mods then removed) end up with 38 upvotes and 0 downvotes
lbz doesn't do downvotes, which means communities hosted on lbz don't do downvotes, and any downvotes received are ignored, without federating them out.
LBZ doesn't register downvotes, i thought?
Drive-by cishet people
To some extent, I agree. However, making up new words and terms can be the beginning of the "social" part of the social construct. For instance, part of why I'm so attached to "bisexual" as a label rather than terms like pansexual is that learning of bisexuality was the first time I realised that it was possible to be attracted to more than one gender; previously, I had thought that because I had experienced attraction to boys, that I must be straight. This led me to not even notice the attraction I felt towards other girls until I learned that bisexuality was a thing
Reminds me of a quote from Nevada by Imogen Binnie:
(Recited from memory, probably not word-for-word accurate.)
Oh, that quote is good. Except the last sentence. If everybody would stop believing in cars, they would still exist.
Those objects would still exist, but they wouldn't be recognized as manifestations of the same category "car". And they are quite different from each other, just look at electric vs gas, and vs motorcycles which somehow aren't cars.
Cars don't randomly start up and drive themselves yet. If everyone were to stop believing in cars, they'd just become mythical objects that litter the world but are of no one's concern.
French, like all languages, is also a social construct.
It's the localized update of a localized update of a localized update of a localized update to a social construct.