Re:Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having
by orwin on Monday October 31, 2022 @11:45AM
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So, this is a social construct then. Since it depends in the society you're in?
Re:Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having
by aiperson on Monday October 31, 2022 @07:03PM
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The underlying reality doesn't depend on the society you're in, just the categories and definitions of words that we create to make sense of reality and chunk that reality into digestible abstractions. So it's weak social constructionism, yeah.
> So for you Hindus were wrong
Hindus were also right -- in their local context where the word "gender" is defined that particular way. There is no globally right or wrong way to define the word "gender", because "gender" is just a word whose definition is decided by local common consensus, just like any other word in a language.
Different societies have different words for common greetings with slightly different implications on meaning. None of them are right or wrong because these words are simply containers that can hold whatever we want them to hold. And it's up to common consensus to put stuff into those containers.