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• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gender is a social construct. There, I disentangled it from evolutionary biology.

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  • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, but nobody’s arguing that. Sex is very much real and very much not a social construct.

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If no one’s arguing it then why did you bring it up? And no one said anything about sex being a social construct. It’s obviously a biological thing, which explains why you seem not to understand it.

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      • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nobody’s arguing about gender being a social construct. I 100% agree with that. Sex is very real and not a construct, and what’s the point of contention (sadly)

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• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is an “either I’m stupid or everybody else” moment and I let you decide on your own.

  Words don’t have inherent meaning but get meaning by the people who use it in the context they do. It’s an collective and context sensitive process. I remember how in one linguistics lecture (typology), we differentiated prepositions from postpositions whereas the syntax prof was like “I don’t care if the preposition is before or after”.

  Also: Judith Butler discusses your gamete definition as utterly irrelevant in this context in Who’s Afraid Of Gender so it’s not that they aren’t aware. That’s all the hint I give you.

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  • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Judith Butler is one of those people that, when you find yourself agreeing with her, you should sit back and really consider how you arrived at that conclusion. She’s not always wrong, but she’s very wrong on a lot of stuff, including the gamete definition. Here’s one example:

    whyevolutionistrue.com/…/judith-butler-on-trumps-…

    You may see elsewhere in this thread where I point out the difference between sex determination and sex definition, which is mentioned in that link:

    Here she conflates “determination” with “definition”, a bad move for someone as smart as Butler.

    The gist of the article is:

    Butler should have done her homework.

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    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You could have engaged with my argument but instead you send an article that willfully ignores my argument as well and sprinkles in enough transphobic talking points to speak to the right while still presenting as rational and reasonable. Trans women in prisons commit far less assaults than prison warts but sure, they are the problem.

      Anyway, I stand corrected. It’s not only you but you and some random blogger who are stupid. Enjoy your fruit salad with tomatoes, avocados and pumpkin until you start to consider that not every definition is valid in every context.

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      • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not some random blogger lol. That’s an evolutionary biologist that certainly should be trusted more on the topic than Judith Butler of all people. The link is more to demonstrate why you should evaluate why you’re wrong and how you ended up there (believing Judith Butler is a good starting point). I didn’t directly respond to your points because you didn’t seem to be arguing (“I let you decide on your own.”)

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