/r/askphilosophy/comments/1j19wgb/does_gender_even_exist/
created by No_Key2179 on 02/03/2025 at 06:15 UTC
15 upvotes, 5 top-level comments (showing 5)
Comment by viviscity at 04/03/2025 at 01:32 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Social constructs exist. Don’t believe me? Tell your bank that money doesn’t exist because it’s “just a social construct”. Or a police officer that “laws aren’t real lol” What a social construct means is that the meaning of the thing changes with society. It doesn’t make them illusions, but social creations. And as such they can be changed or replaced over time through social action.
Comment by roseofamber at 03/03/2025 at 17:45 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
No gender doesn't exist except as a social construct. If people like to perform gender that's fine.
| personally don't jive with it as a concept.
Comment by daisyintegral at 04/03/2025 at 06:35 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Well yes, but it's a man made invention. In the sense that religion does, or money does
Comment by cefalea1 at 02/03/2025 at 17:28 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Of course it exist, it's a European construct that was brought to the Americas through colonialism. It's a historical phenomena that can be traced, no need to speculated.
Comment by upfrontboogie at 02/03/2025 at 08:23 UTC
-21 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Gender isn’t a meaningless or frivolous social construct.
It’s the ideology of male domination.
It’s the ideology of women’s submission.
It’s an ideological hierarchy that places men at the top, and women at the bottom.
Everything in gender is about submitting to male domination.
The aesthetics of gender are about making yourself more sexually available to men or more likely to do domestic labour for men.
Gender is the reason why little girls are deprived of education all around the world.
Gender is the reason why hundreds of women per day are killed by men in femicide.
Gender is the reason little girls are killed the second they come out the womb.
Gender is the reason why we have female genital mutilation.
Just because someone doesn’t conform to gender doesn’t mean they’re not actually their sex.
Gender is not an identity that you are born with.
It is a violent caste system that is forced on us.
So just because a man puts on a disgusting, insulting caricature of femininity and gender, I’m not gonna call him a woman.
Hannah Berelli, 2023