[ SECRET POST #3945 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3945 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

while, as far as I know, all cultures recognize both male and female (and sometimes additional options), they do not share the same social constructs of what it means to be male or female.

I agree, and this is a central part of what I mean when I talk about gender being a social construct, and I think a central part of what most people mean when they talk about it. It's a socially determined construct which means that it varies enormously from society to society and even within societies.

And I wouldn't necessarily talk about your personal gender identity being constructed for you by society. Rather, I would say that you have some kind of being, and that your self-understanding of that identity, your expression of that identity, your definition of that identity, all of those things, are influenced by and defined against the social construct that is gender.

It's a little like how language works. Language is something that's fundamentally a learned social convention - words don't really have any intrinsic meaning outside of the meaning that we construct for them. At the same time, those social constructs have an existence outside of any particular individual member of society, and for all that they're learned social constructs, they also provide fundamentally important tools for organizing, defining, and communicating our experiences and identities. We can talk usefully about words, and what they mean to us, and how we use them, and how we identify with them, even while we also know that all those meanings are in some sense socially defined. Maybe that doesn't make sense as an analogy, idk. But that's kind of how I feel about it.