i dont get it either. i hate the horror genre. i wish i could understand but i guess thats what makes humans interesting, how differently we can see things

wow you figured it out! you even figured it out before you got to the part where i directly call them a stupid-head too

I was actually speaking about the biological classification “sex”, not the act! I hadn’t thought about the act as a social construct, but I guess it obviously is. I’m reminded of the old lesbian conundrum: “Was what we just did ‘sex’ or…?”

Maybe this is why people are freaking out. “If food is a social construct, then I’ll start eating mold!” Yeah, and I’m the one who’s stupid and crazy. I’m actually really astounded by how much people are reading their own bullshit into this.

Do you genuinely think that it is stupid to be wondering about this? That’s a really sad way to live. Anyway, I hope you have a good day today, despite how mean you’ve been to me. Maybe it made you feel better to be mean to me, but I know from experience that you’re usually mean when things aren’t going well. Good luck.

I have never once at any point inserted a “should” into this conversation, besides maybe like “you shouldn’t be a dick”.

is that what’s so scary to you? that thinking leads to shoulding? take your fear out elsewhere please

Excellent! So what’s underneath all this, then? Can something be both real and a social construct? What things aren’t social constructs?

go on 😊

explain better? I don’t wanna lecture. I wanna talk. we figure it out together. that’s what we do together, as a community, instead of telling people off, like here! definitely got some easy new names for my block list though.

Imagine being trans though, holy shit, I don’t envy having to do this regularly…

Go on.

you must really hate yourself to treat others like this

how does it feel to take everything so seriously

what would you do if you did what you if you do? huh?

I got you now

I’ve been fairly polite in this thread but I’m tempted to call you stupid. I won’t, because I get you, but you’re missing the point.

Is [insert word] not what it is defined to mean??

That is NOT what I am saying, you stupid-head. Is that what you think social construct means? Read my other replies and get back to me. Explain to me why your comment is wrong and a gross misinterpretation of what I’m saying.

“carrying and birthing my child was not a social construct” vibes

sure but calling it a certain name based on those qualities is…

I knew the Driveby

Haiku would understand. Nice.

Thank you for responding.

But then how can I torment a teenager who says “We don’t have any food in the house!” by reminding them that food is a social construct? They’re never gonna end up saying “We don’t have any cuisines in the house!”

Our naming and classification of things is all socially constructed. So yes, our categorization of edible things as food is a social construct, but our physical need to fuel our bodies with something digestible is not.

i love you

But also, using it that way makes existence a social construct, so it depends on how rigid you want to be.

Explain. (warning lemmings may get mad)

ruh roh what if sex is also a social construct

nah not going down that rabbit hole

(wonder why we chose to group biological factors XYZ to determine those classes instead of classes based on ABC tho…)

that’s a beautiful thing! so… mind or culture?

Sure there are some edge cases which you can argue the point in

isn’t that kind of a big deal, though? either it’s not socially constructed and you can’t argue in edge cases, or it is socially constructed and you can. as for what you do with this conclusion, it really doesn’t matter…

until you start discussing social constructs with someone and you have to remember that even the concept of food is socially constructed. which should really comfort us and remind us that this means something can be a social construct and still real, meaningful, and important, but instead it seems everyone wants to freak out at the concept! even in this thread.

yea this seems to be the deciding factor. but cant we think of something that we wouldn’t normally consider “food” and have it meet all these criteria?

like if you saw a spider’s nest in the corner of your house, would you say “I have some food over here”? Why not? what if they were not poisonous, etc? what nutrients do they need to have in order to be considered food?

what about non-digestible fibers that we may consume? are they not food? aren’t there some parts of plants that we don’t digest or something?

you can see how this can be more ambiguous the deeper you look! it’s honestly such a shame that so many lemmings are SO off-put by even the idea of it.