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Gender isn't real: it's just an idea (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to c/memes@sopuli.xyz

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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There are plenty of trans individuals who'd disagree with that. Gender is a made-up concept the same way that 'birds' are a made-up concept - they're a human categorization of actual phenomena.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

Humans just can’t resist categorizing things with fuzzy borders. Just ask any biologists about taxonomy and you’ll see what I mean.

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

And there are trans people who believe gender is a social construct too, though. It is an open debate.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think this is the point. Maybe? Sorting stuff in categories is a human hobby even if the reality doesn't give a shit about categories. See cladistics: we paste labels on beings and say this a species, this is a genus, and we have to arbitrarily choose when a group is neither one or the other, because life didn't evolve following human rules.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Species, as an example, are far from strict and static categories, but such categories are still standard in academia because even in a field as precision-oriented as academic and scientific studies, they ARE still useful reflections of real phenomena.