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The fact that gender is a social construct doesn't mean that it's up to each individual to decide what it is to be a man or woman (for example). The dollar is a social construct, but it's not up to me what it is for something to be a dollar.
Comment by 1PettyPettyPrincess at 13/01/2025 at 12:39 UTC
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A social construct about the relative worth of something is different than a social construct about how someone personally feels internally and present themselves.
Comment by imperfect9119 at 13/01/2025 at 12:36 UTC
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It's up to each individual to decide how THEY want to participate within the social construct, what rules they want to break and be willing to accept the consequences.
Change happens because of Thought Leaders
-some thought leaders will lose their jobs
-some will go to jail
-some will gain a following and over time change the norms by influencing others. so will literally change what it means to be a man or woman.
comparing a dollar to complex social constructs doesn't work.
Comment by hulaw2007 at 15/01/2025 at 13:11 UTC
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People are different than dollars, obviously. For example, people are inherently much more complex and able to have individual thought, which dollars do not. Dollars don't grow up into adult dollars, and they don't feel different from other dollars, such that they're are a few circulating firms of the dollar i think, but none of the dollars has the sentience to know they are one kind of dollar or another. You can't intrinsically compare people and dollars. It's absurd.