Why Language and Gender Aren't Just 'Social Constructs'
Social constructs and the words that describe them are not based upon the wishes, feelings or muses between one's ears.
They are based upon reality and the physical.
One's philosophical wondering's about "Gender" doesn't change reality.
Big Picture: Here we go again, as we can observe; Language, the driving force behind conscious awareness, consciousness, conscience, physical reality and truth is under attack; whether it be the fear of loosing power or for "progressively" controlling the narrative and humanity itself has always been a left of center protocol for securing a place in the world for those most of us would find wanting.
They are based upon reality and the physical.
One's philosophical wondering's about "Gender" doesn't change reality.
Big Picture: Here we go again, as we can observe; Language, the driving force behind conscious awareness, consciousness, conscience, physical reality and truth is under attack; whether it be the fear of loosing power or for "progressively" controlling the narrative and humanity itself has always been a left of center protocol for securing a place in the world for those most of us would find wanting.
Language is a tool to share thought. We destroy language when we muddle definitions.
ing use language to make that denial, don't they?
Isn't that similar to using the "Stolen Concept"?
But call xe ein hir xe punch du in ze pants.
So sorry. Something mental in xe zir dino snapped.
Zagopiffus now, y'all.
Being exposed to silly stuff that short out brain cells can trigger that off.
Especially ze zany gender zaza zat libzirs take twit seriously.
For example, do you feels like the men's room or the women's room today?
Tomorrow, you just may feel more like the opposite room and that's okay.
"and that's okay?" I just remembered something I'll go fetch~
~here it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgaRd...
Whoa! "and he's okay?"
Never mind.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1997...
https://www.census.gov/topics/populat...
You are correct, race is an anti social construct within the progressive mindlessness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spi...
The only expectation, whether we call you He or she, is what we might find in your pants,or your genes.
It is what it is...we don't care what's between your ears unless there is nothing at all; in that case, one should be barred from government...laughing.
Let me put it another way: Sometimes I feel like a Nut...sometimes I don't. In either case, I am a male member of the human species.
Additionally, besides the social structures; some of the stuff that is put into foods may have a cumulative effect as well. (suspected but not proven definitively.)
Cosmopolitan was a new word for a new condition: citizen of the world, not of just any one city, but all of the Helliades the entire koinon.
Axiom only meant "honored" and if something was "honored" it was above question, and so it came to mean, also, a good price or a bargain.
The love of money is the root of all evil, they said, but "the love of money" was a newly invented word to suit the purpose: PHILARGYRION - love of silver.
My niece is going to a "completenarian" Christian college where women are not allowed to teach theology to men. That took me to Wikipedia on Timothy 2:12 and this section on the meaning of the word AUTHENEO, which mean authority over, of course, but also murder or suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Timot...
Those other meanings were extensives, derived from the basic concept. (Analogy or euphemism are not quite the right tropes, but I cannot think of better words right now.) But the point is the same: the Greeks did, as the article said, take both the literal (god-given) and contextual (societal) meanings of words. We do so, today. I pretty much do. (Think about my use of "pretty" there...)
As for the fine point of Orwell being a "great science fiction writer" I must demur. 1984 was much like science fiction, being set in the future of that time. However, not much else was within the science fiction genre and Orwell wrote nothing else similar. We might as well call him a "great fable writer" for Animal Farm. Orwell was a political writer. At least, that is how I understand him from Animal Farm, 1984, and Homage to Catalonia.
The key point about Newspeak is that there was less and less of it. The Party was shrinking the language to reduce the ability to think. The goal was to be a doubleplusgood ducktalker, to repeat the Party message without thinking. Duplicitous terms such as Minipax (ministry of peace for the ministry of war) only reflected the actual abuse of language, as in our own Department of Defense.
And, yet, that change did reflect, and important conceptual shift: the only justification for war is defense. Aggression is wrong. That is very different from the view of the ancient Greeks who held that the cries of the victims that the conquerors are unjust are only the cries of the hare as the eagle carries it off in accordance with natural law.