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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOne of the most telling parts of the horrifically <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neonazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neonazi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExecutiveOrder</a> targeting <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> is its defence of literal "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScientificRacism</a>". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#race</a> is a human invention, a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialConstruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialConstruct</a>.<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/</a>

That Frisian Girl-ishI feel there's something to think about, and maybe I'll go into more detail when I have. A social construct is an arbitrary, cultural, and zeitgeisty implicit social accord, usually to serve a function in society. The underlying social construct about gender is not what is manly or womanly, or the number of genders. It is that we assign societal roles based on an identity assigned on genital appearance at birth at all. And if we are to change anything about the social construct around gender, we have to subject it to scrutiny with regard to its function in the current world. What is the use, what is the verdict when the doctor in the delivery room proclaims "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!" and jots that down on an official piece of paper? What is the societal cost? Is that sustainable? <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/SocialConstruct" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialConstruct</a> <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/Gender" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gender</a>

Critical Cupcake<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/CriticalQuestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriticalQuestions</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Quiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quiz</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/PubQuiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PubQuiz</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prison</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/SocialConstruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialConstruct</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Society</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Jail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jail</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/StayHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StayHome</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/StaySafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StaySafe</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/StayHomeStaySafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StayHomeStaySafe</a><a href="https://youtu.be/TqHYYfqpdns" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/TqHYYfqpdns</a>

That Frisian Girl-ish"… is a <a href="https://blahaj.zone/tags/SocialConstruct" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialConstruct</a>" does not mean it doesn't exist, is unreal, or has no impact. Social constructs are powerful entities for a social species, as they are widely shared ideas, and often represent basic functions. That being said, they are also somewhat arbitrary and can be changed. Money as a social construct, for example, is the abstract idea of value being exchangeable between individuals. It is important, although capitalism somewhat perverted it with the idea that money alone should make more money, and absurdly on top by the mathematical unstable, exponential interest function - as you see, under capitalism, the social construct of money has changed, and we can change it again. Gender as another social construct can change, too. The binary gender model has 2 genders, specific biological and physiological properties, traits, interests, social roles, prescriptions on normative behaviour. All this is pretty arbitrarily thrown together, and this social construct in a more egalitarian society loses more and more of its social function, as it is inherently hierarchical; the concept of women being inferior can only work if what is defined as the role of women in a society is valued less, their contributions are made invisible, and their assigned virtues make them dependent. This is, paradoxically, why successful feminism actually dissolves binary gender and does away with "woman" as a meaningful social trait - it merely becomes a private conviction. Undoing what a woman is socially frees women to be what they can be and want to be.

Cees GrootesResearchers say time is an illusion.Time we're experiencing is a social construct. Real time is actually something quite different. In some of the odder corners of the Universe, space and time can stretch and slow — and sometimes even break down completely.🔗 <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1139780043/what-is-time-physics-atomic-clocks-society" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1139780043/what-is-time-physics-atomic-clocks-society</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#time</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illusion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialConstruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialConstruct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#relativity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimeManagement</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gravity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gravity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#universe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophysical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/clock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/clocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clocks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StandardTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandardTime</a>

Jack Iwashyna 🫁Some notes on <a href="https://critcare.social/tags/VictorRay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VictorRay</a>’s <a href="https://critcare.social/tags/OnCriticalRaceTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnCriticalRaceTheory</a>, cc:ing <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/sociology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sociology</a> (3/...)Chapter 1: clarifying "Race as a <a href="https://critcare.social/tags/SocialConstruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialConstruct</a>"Metaphor 1: Another term for <a href="https://critcare.social/tags/SocialConstruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialConstruct</a> is a collective hallucination that we are all acting onMetaphor 2: money is also a social construct, but just saying "I no longer believe in money" will not make inequality in resources go away

JaddyOh my... was für eine Folge über <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/SocialConstruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialConstruct</a>'s<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koud7hgGyQ8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koud7hgGyQ8</a>Wo ich doch gerade an der Präzisierung des Kernkonflikts mit meiner "Umwelt" (Menschen) bastle, wegen deren tw völligen Nichtbeachtung meiner <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/nichtbin%C3%A4r" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nichtbinär</a> Ansage.Heisst: Selbst wenn sie es mit den Pronomen hinkriegen; sie bleiben weiter in ihrem binären "homeostatic property cluster" und den aufgepfropften Verhaltensweisen.Schon weil ihnen gar keine Alternative vorstellbar ist, oder?🤔 <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gender</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/enby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enby</a>

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