Hehe

Betteridge’s law of headlines.

So no.

The problem is those people still exist in the real world and can still do material harm.

We need to do something about them, even if we can/do block them online, their harm won’t stop there.

Yes, sex is a social construct in terms of that it’s just a thing that is assigned and a label that has been applied to people based on what it’s assumed their bodily makeup.

Doctors and others don’t exactly do karyotype or other genetic testing at birth, they look at the genitals and usually apply one of two boxes to you and unless you look into it that label follows you around the rest of your life. Often, if you don’t fit into those boxes they try to make you.

It isn’t helpful nor accurate, because bodies are not the same. This is what we mean when we say sex is a social construct, it’s just a label, a shortcut through language meant to imply homogeneity forgoing accuracy and meaning, and it doesn’t mean anything because it’s not specific enough to.

Sex is a social construct in all the ways gender is, because as stated it’s just a label that gets applied to you. What with HRT, surgery etc most, if not all biological characteristics of a body can be changed and this makes the distinction useless. Especially because people are so hung up on what bodies look like and what their functions are supposed to be, yes this is partially to do with gender but it also speaks to ‘sex’ too.

Even scientists understand this now and though I don’t necessarily agree nor disagree with this, they call sex a bimodal distribution, not a distinct binary any more.

But regardless of what it’s called or how many ‘sexes’ are recognised, it’s still a social construct because it’s taking a bunch of characteristics and applying labels to it. That’s it.

Patriarchy, toxic masculinity, misogyny and ego, men don’t want to be beat by women or other genders.

Say it with me now: Sex is a social construct.

A ‘convenient’ fitting into boxes usually two, but accurately not always.

The problem with such a system is that it’s limiting and not at all useful in trying to help people.

We should be specific in what we are trying to say, because the miasma of a sex binary isn’t useful, even in medical fields as it conditions doctors to think in very limiting ways and not actually help accurately.

It also has many roots in patriarchal violence in determining what a person (though to them a body) is for.

It’s also problematic in a racist sense because of the colonialist white ‘western’ ideas of what makes a certain sex or gender often don’t fit those who aren’t in those categories (except colonised).

Which is why the ‘science’ is very problematic in this regard because that is the bias/lens with which it looks at this specific ‘field’ through.

Remember the rule of headlines, if it’s a question it can be answered with a no.

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There was supposed to be goldfish, but I’m not sure what happened to it.

Glad he had someone looking out for him.

Yes, though conversely some women are naturally small/skinny etc, so shouldn’t be shamed for that even if not celebrated for it.

Why would I want to read some crusty old dude that is outdated?

Political theory has moved on since Marx yet people still cling to him like a religion (like a cult).

Well, the web shouldn’t be human. But if they were to attempt to make it then LLMs would not be the way.

‘left’, yeah, right.

The democrats are at most center left, but that’s higly debatable.

Sure, I get your point and agree.

I just think that third party middleman attacks should be mitigated wherever possible and so far, in looking at online therapy I’ve never seen one that can back up their claims of being private with data, just vague references to how secure it is.

It’s a tricky situation, and I guess there’s no good solution because either we have to trust the third party or just the therapist and if neither can be trusted, well…

it just speaks to a larger issue with society as a whole, how we treat mental health and especially that we need to pay in order to deal with our issues, and that it hasn’t been understood yet that it’s shameful and scary to come forward about problems because of certain laws, and the possibility of either the original scenario or the one you proposed.

This is terrible. However it’s one reason online ‘therapy’ should never be trusted to be private.

Unless the therapists start using actually private ways of communicating like Signal, then stuff like this will keep happening.

I wonder if AI wrote it for him.

This is why in my opinion it is better to say people are unethical/immoral than ‘criminals’ when they do something genuinely harmful.

Criminal is kind of a useless or neutral word if the point we want to get across is that someone actually did something heinous would do or is doing too, and I wish more people would recognise that.

Yep, that’s why mastodon only allows for 72 characters maximum in passwords, I assume.