• Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Gender may in part be a social construct, but that doesn’t make it not real. Social constructs are very real.

    • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Playing basketball is a social construct. No two people play basketball exactly the same, and many people don’t even play by the exact socially accepted rules. Despite all these things, we can still use imprecise, incomplete words to usefully communicate groups of shared behaviors and preferences, and even offer nuance about those sets of behaviors and preferences, when the situation calls for it.

  • bobor hrongar@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Gender seems to at least be as real as anything else to some extent, that’s why gender dysphoria exists and people report not being able to change it. Large parts of it are socially constructed though. We’re not really 100% sure about it at the moment.

    • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m no expert so don’t mistake this for truth (and I’m sure this is an abhorrent over simplification), but I’ve heard it better described as gender being a biological thing with gender roles being the social construct.

      I don’t know that the difference really matters in practice anyway, I honestly didn’t care much for the way the person who claimed this thought everyone was causing harm by saying gender is a social construct.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s like genres. Helps you find similar music you like, but great songs can’t be contained by a category!