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tinypaperwindmill · 11 months

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The French word "genre" means:

"Genre" as in movie genre

"Gender" as in both people's and nouns' genders and

"Like" as in "omg, like, that's so cool!"

So my theory is the word "gender" came from a word that actually just means a category out of many categories. It means "this thing is similar other things." It amazes me that the French recognized only two genders for so long while art had a hundred and expressions had a million. Like, the etymology of it all, ya know?

#gender #the french #language is a social construct #language has genders #therefore gender is a social construct #a=b=c #facts over feelings #logic bitch

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art-of-mathematics · 28 days

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#this post is a friendly reminder to myself that i dont have to interact with people who constantly criticize each other incl me #dont be too pedantic about interpreting the statement in the picture #it depends on what you define as depression and expression #but in that case - depression resulting from lac #depression resulting from lack of constructive social interactions #depression resulting from lack of social contacts/interaction where one can unmask #affirmation #today my language procssing is very errorous #i hope its not too incoherent

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rationalisms · 2 months

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finding out that most people consider "arriving around seven" to mean no later than like 7:15 and anything later is rude or requires an excuse has absolutely blown my mind. in my culture "around seven" can mean absolutely anything from seven on the dot to roughly located within the same general year.

#being on time is a social construct. alternatively just use precise language i guess.#txt

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 months

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Social constructivism is a social construct.

#Seerut Chawla #social constructivism #social construct #language games #redefining words #magical thinking #objective reality #material reality #religion is a mental illness

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vitruvianmanbara · 7 months

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you could make a long, well-structured, thoroughly cited argument about how it's legally and socially dangerous in the long run to over-attribute complex human behavior like sexuality to simplistic biological concepts, let alone ones that rest on flimsy & incomplete science, and someone would still hop on your dick to say that questioning that approach is something too socially & politically dangerous to even carefully discuss within gay spaces in this current political climate. and it's been this way for like 30 years. sad!

#you don't need to deconstruct the social meaning of what 'born this way' has become with your conservative uncle. fucking obviously #but i cannot stand gay people who seek to place hard limits on language & thinking abt the construction & meaning of #sexuality WITHIN gay spaces like how cowardly & antithetical to true gay liberation can you be.#anyway. guy who made the mistake of reading the comments section

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afutureworththinkingabout · 1 year

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The "P" Stands for Pre-trained

I know I've said this before, but since we're going to be hearing increasingly more about Elon Musk and his "Anti-Woke" "A.I." "Truth GPT" in the coming days and weeks, let's go ahead and get some things out on the table:

All technology is political. All created artifacts are rife with values.

I keep trying to tell you that the political right understands this when it suits them— when they can weaponize it; and they're very VERY good at weaponizing it— but people seem to keep not getting it. So let me say it again, in a somewhat different way:

There is no ground of pure objectivity. There is no god's-eye view.

There is no purely objective thing. Pretending there is only serves to create the conditions in which the worst people can play "gotcha" anytime they can clearly point to their enemies doing what we are literally all doing ALL THE TIME: Creating meaning and knowledge out of what we value, together.

Read the rest of The "P" Stands for Pre-trained at A Future Worth Thinking About

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booksdogsmagicandmore · 1 year

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Saying “people with uteruses” is NOT erasing women any more than saying “all humans are created equal” is erasing men.

#language changes #to be more inclusive #of people who were historically excluded #it’s not the end of the world #trans #trans rights #trans rights are human rights #no lgb without the t #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqiia+#queer #gender is a social construct

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the-trans-dragon · 1 month

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https://www.tumblr.com/mousegirlheart/712995877228298240/mouse-yaoi-real

Idk it seems ciscentered, trans excluding to treat “male mice” like a coherent thing — rather than some construct we assign to them like how we assign it with amab people — and then further to conflate 2 male mice together as being yaoi and gay… it reinforces being “male” (amab) as a biological thing not something to do with gender and identity.

Hmmm... I can't seem to see things from your perspective. Is the only issue that it says "mouse yaoi real"?

I reblogged because it's incredibly cool that it happened! It helps dissolve our rigid ideas of sex, in my opinion. One of the biggest trans-exclusionary arguments in my current culture is "women are women because they can bear children," which ties into the ever-present homophobic argument of "homosexuality is wrong because it cannot produce offspring."

The ramifications for this sort of thing are still "up in the air," so to speak, since experiments with mice cannot always be replicated in humans. But the ability to create a viable offspring from a same-sex pair of mammalian model organisms is still a big break-through, especially because of the implications of creating an egg with two X chromosomes from a male skin cell with only one X chromosome! As the CNN article itself explains,

"The proof-of-concept research, the culmination of years of pain-staking lab work, could expand the possibilities for future fertility treatments, including for same-sex couples, and perhaps help prevent the extinction of endangered animals. "

The ability to create viable offspring from "male" cells is a direct wound to the idea that "male" is a rigid characteristic. If I allow myself to daydream, I can ponder other possibilities: could you turn "male" skin cells into other cells? Could a trans woman one day have her own cells used to grow a uterus? Growing entire organs is a wholly different feat, compared to creating a single gamete, with difficulties such as incorporating it into a pre-existing organism (eg, even if you could grow a uterus, could you get it connected to the circulatory system?). It's a far-off daydream, thanks to the current culture's fear of research that questions it's rigid ideas of sex and gender. But it's a daydream that comes closer to being reality when science achieves breakthroughs like this!

I am being overly hopeful. Science is very slow to make progress in regards to sex. Progress is discouraged and poorly funded, and can even be destroyed, such as with the Hirshfield Institution. But seeing science make progress like this, despite the hostile culture, gives me hope in itself.

It's unfortunate that our current vocabulary is inadequate and rife with bias that assumes everything is cisgender, heterosexual, and perisex. In our efforts to understand the unbiased nature of sex, it's important to examine our views for these issues. Does "mouse yaoi real" contribute to cis-centric, trans-exclusionary biases? I dunno. No. Yeah. Sure. It doesn't matter. Or maybe it does.

Anyways, the science is really really really really cool. I have other thoughts on the matter, but my vocabulary feels inadequate to verbalize them, and instead I am just taking a moment here to talk about the science a little, explain how it can be utilized as a step towards trans healthcare, and emphasize the importance of celebrating these things.

#sorenhoots #this ask feels kinda bait-y. like its intended to make me delete the post quietly #or make me rethink the consequences of playfully saying “mouse yaoi real.” but i took it as an opportunity to talk about something that is #very important to me. i dont have the words to explain the practical benefits of addressing the non-social-construct sides of sex and how #science and healthcare need a way to study sex without the bias inherent in our culture and language. and i dont think its like....#bad that someone said Mouse Yaoi Real. for the record. taking a playful approach to jargon-heavy topics like the differentiation of #artifical euploid XX pluripotent stem cells into into mature oocytes... well. why not phrase it “mouse yaoi real” lol.#obviously its technically incorrect to anthropomorphize mice and assign them labels like Yaoi but like.... it isnt morally wrong. the humor #comes from the fact that its funny to anthropomorphize mice as Yaoi. i suppose a cis person seeing the joke might have their cis-centric #ideas validated by it but now we are getting into the territory of “whos responsible for the interpretation of art--the artist or the #viewer?“ and at that point ive equated Mouse Yaoi Real with art and thats how i know its time for me to go to bed.

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sam-ph · 3 months

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Saw a post about grammatical gender and other languages than English, (the origin of the discussion begins with "what if alien languages didn't have gender information in their pronouns" and the fact that many people didn't know much of languages outside english (so I suppose they weren't very original in their what ifs..))

BUT ANYWAY

This is a tangent to talk about grammatical gender in "Faunish" which doesn't ever appear in Spellworth or won't be ever mentioned but is still canon in my mind.

Here are the grammatical genders:

Faun

Inanimate-1 (small related)

Inanimate-2 (big related)

Animate pronouns (almost all of animals, some plants and some concepts like the sun)

... still interested ? I have to say there is light spoiler ahead about where the fauns come from, which is kinda a big question in Spellworth, but if you're not afraid, you can go on

Other people (non fauns) : "displaced" (aka they are in the fauns world)

Other people (non fauns) : the rest, who are in their own worlds and interacts with fauns through portals/spell circles

Now... they still have social genders, and they're not perfect, some fauns may not identify with any of them or several, but this is not the norm. Here they are:

those who birthed a child (1st gender)

those who didn't (2nd gender)

those who didn't but extensively care for them (3rd gender)

First gender are usually those in power (yeah, kinda "matriarchal" society, even if the concept is not a 1-1 from english).

Fun fact, in Spellworth, the people usually interacting with fauns traditionally use she/her for fauns of the first gender and he/him for fauns of the second gender, regardless of their phenotype (also... they don't interact much with fauns of the 3rd gender... they don't even know it exists). The fauns could not care less how they are referred to in english.

#spellworth #infodump #grammatical gender #constructed language #conlang #sort of because it's only structure here #worldbuilding #social gender

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fiapple · 2 months

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but also like literally want to emphasize the “including other trans people” part of that last addition. like there is a reason the times i’ve personally written posts about the issues with how tmes speak over transfems regarding transmisogyny in the name of “having our own terms” or the issues with the trans mra movement, i get anons positioning my motives within the realm of trans women’s fuckability by other tme people. & that’s still nothing compared to what transfeminine users on here go through while trying to self advocate .

#again pointing out that i don’t think a term is needed (though will also note serrano who coined the term transmisogyny has herself said a #term to describe the other end of the scale may have some poltical utility)#that being said if you are looking to describe your experience with misogyny as a socially constructed system of oppression without #connotating womanhood the words “bioessentialist” & “cissexist” are right there #+ more apt regarding the fact that it’s not misogyny overlapping with transphobia to create not only experiences based in that compounding #but also a separate from of oppression (transmisogyny) but rather how transphobia interacts with misogyny when tme ppl are structurally #misgendered (not a new system of oppression because that is general transphobia) & thus the reason why the experience of being abused by the #structure of patriarchy in a way that is not because of the manhood (what androphobia &/or misandry implies) but how the general transphobia #of structural misgendering leads to impositions to benefit the ruling class under patriarchy (cis white men)#like if you NEED a word there are ways to explore language there that aren’t inherently transmisogynistic #& as a tme person i find the assertion to the contrary deeply insidious #transmisogyny

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circumplural · 3 months

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slur discourse is very silly

#okay you ostracize tiktokers and trace people for saying the n word... good for you. hope that makes you feel better.#are you actually fighting for Black liberation or just getting upset at people for saying a word?#it's fucking words. it's not real.#gender is a social construct (audience applauds) race is a social construct (tentative applause) language is a social construct (boos)#⌞ ✒️ nikolai.txt — text posts ⌝

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bewitched-bullet · 3 months

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#feral #gender is a social construct #genderfluid #autistic #biting is a love language

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lindwurmkai · 4 months

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you know ... i've made a fool of myself on the internet quite a few times in my life. i've said some pretty bizarre things, some of which went way beyond simple "brain farts" and in fact may have been signs of serious mental issues.

to name some examples of shit my brain has done:

experienced something akin to age regression complete with temporarily lacking knowledge and skills i normally possess. sometimes the missing knowledge was replaced with alternate "facts" that were straight-up wrong, yet for the duration of this state (usually just one day), i was convinced i was making sense.

badly misinterpreted someone's words because they tripped a trauma trigger and i was only self-aware enough to recognise that my emotions were disproportionate, but not that my judgement was impaired.

leaps in logic and outlandish claims that seemed reasonable to me at the time, but a week or a month later, i began to feel like i must have been on the verge of psychosis to come up with such nonsense. (does anyone remember "people in the past didn't experience sexual attraction the way we do because they wore different clothes"?????)

and that's in addition to regular brain fog, sleep deprivation logic, taking things too literally because i'm autistic, or simply ... being wrong. for normal reasons.

but every time there is an "abnormal" reason, i find myself hoping that anyone who witnessed it understands i wasn't just being stupid. because even in this day and age, too many people still look down on stupidity as if it were a choice. for a while it got a little better on the internet, at least in my circles, but then we experienced a great renaissance of "focusing on language distracts from the real issues" logic and suddenly no one cared anymore. even though it was never about the exact language used, but about the underlying devaluation of people with low IQs and anyone else perceived as stupid.

so i catch myself thinking, "it wasn't stupidity. i was triggered. i hope they understand that and don't unfollow me for being stupid." but that's shitty of me, too, isn't it? i am not better than people with intellectual disabilities or brain damage because my "stupidity" is more transient. it's not an expression of my personal opinion though, it's an expression of what i fear other people may think. and i will never be able to shake that fear as long as people keep complaining about stupidity like it's a moral failing.

there is immense privilege in my ability to look back on these episodes and recognise them as temporary. is someone who would look down on people who are permanently like that really my friend, though?

if you can't handle me at my "making no fucking sense", you don't deserve me at my "flash of brilliance during hyperfocus" tbh.

#one time i genuinely got the impression a mutual unfollowed me for being wrong on the internet too often #i still follow them for their tendency to bluntly criticise popular sentiments i may have otherwise accepted without thinking #because i always try to keep some people like that on my dash! but yeah surprise surprise they don't like stupidity at all #which is why they're not in my ''must read'' blog pack. i don't put blogs in there that might spring such language on me without warning #intelligence is a social construct and it sucks #stupidity #intelligence #ableism #btw when i say on the verge of psychosis. i am schizotypal it's not an exaggeration #i don't really get psychosis but there is something going on that occasionally strays in that direction #weirdo chronicles

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ferociouslycreativemystery · 8 months

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The double edged sword of "these rules are all made up and hold no inherent value" but "they still affect how people understand, experience and interact with the world every single day"

#close your eyes and throw a dart at the cork board of social constructs #still it's to some extent a necessity of how language functions #so this will remain relevant until we as a species have all evolved telepathy #it's exhausting to navigate though #thank fuck for artistic expression #I'm possibly rambling. this blueberry pie is making me feel philosophical #maddie debrief

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limetarte · 9 months

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Waiting for the time more people realize that we don’t have to follow made up rules and never change them.

We can change definitions as much as we want, we don’t have to follow definitions either.

Why limit ourselves to made up rules?

We don’t have to follow social constructs. We can make new things up too.

#allonormativity #amatonormativity #patriarchy #social construct #made up rules #language #no labels #we don’t have to follow made up language rules #challenge the mind #challenge creativity #challenge labels #challenge rules #challenge social constructs #question things #don’t limit anyone to a made up book of rules

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crystallinecryptid · 1 year

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took me way too long to realize cis kids probably didn’t start yelling SOCIAL CONSTRUCT whenever someone asked about their gender online.

#nonbinary #i would seriously give everyone who asked 'm or f?' this speech about gender being a social construct #because I don't wanna think about it and I'm kinda a boygirl and a girlboy but only a boy or a girl when it's funny #most of all I'm just a bunch of different things that aren't neatly described by the gendered language we have

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