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Science is more like a conversation. (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A person's sex is science, but their gender is a social construct.

Even sex is not the black and white dichotomy most people make it out to be. The way we define and dictate someone's sex isn't reproducible for everyone. The intersex population is larger than what most people assume, and can vary in ways that defy the way we normally evaluate sex. It can range from someone having different chromosomal pairings, to having a varied arrangement of secondary sexual organs.

Anyone saying that someone's sex is scientifically dependent on "x" is either ignorant, or academically dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

arguably science itself has been constructed in a social context ie a social construct

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is definitely limited by the cultural understanding of linguistical norms. Because the language we utilize in the methodology predates it, the language itself can limit most people's conceptual understanding of whatever topic you are utilizing the methodology on.

Accurate communication is hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

yes thank you leto ii