• Xir
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    8 days ago

    Well, even if it is a construct of the mind, if we assume the mind to be, if not entirely composed of, then at least partially so, the brain, it would still be sensible to call gender a biological reality as it would be a bimodal distribution comparing the averages of male and female brains. This was poorly worded sorry

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        8 days ago

        Yeah. Which is what I think most believe they are talking about when they say “gender,” and as that is the primary way in which it’s used I usually tend to just think of gender as being in reference to such, seeing as the actual definition leaves it largely a redundant and unhelpful construct

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    8 days ago

    This relates to something similar I have thought about before. Why does everybody consider the first human, Adam, to be male? If only one human being exists, how can it grasp the concept of the opposite sex of itself? How can it grasp the concept of gender and sex at all until there are other humans to compare itself to? Concepts like gender and race are simply created by comparing oneself to another. It’s stupid and pointless. This reinforces the individualism of the soul being the first and most important thing.