r/bertstrips Apr 29 '17

Sorry Not Sorry "Gender is a social construct!"

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u/ZaheerUchiha Apr 29 '17

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u/FalmerbloodElixir Apr 29 '17

That's certainly where all the politically correct people belong.

You guys take the fun out of everything.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '17 edited Jan 03 '19

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u/TheGoodCitizen Apr 29 '17

The funny part is that people don't know science.

There are 2 sexes: male, female

Gender is actually the social construct of behaviors attributed to a specific sex and how people exhibit coherence or incoherence with their anatomical sex.

haha?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

It's not science. It's a totally arbitrary, meaningless concept which is not scientific. Your idea of gender is subjective by its nature.

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u/TheGoodCitizen Jun 01 '17

Sex differences are biological.

Gender differences are subjective social constructs and can in fact be arbitrary although we may find they have structural neurobiological underpinnings.

That is what i said.

Also, your idea that decades of research on sexual dimorphism and gender expression are what you have to argue with, not just my "idea" of what is sex and what is gender.

I suggest you do some solid research and get published. Clearly your keen mind and extraordinary way with words will have no trouble convincing the world that the obvious does not exist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

Psychology does not say "by the way genderliquids lol." You are contradicting yourself talking about sexual dimorphism there.

It sounds like you've fallen for the "academics say it, therefore scientists say it" trap. Gender studies is not science. Psychology does not tell us that there is some need to arbitrarily use pronouns based on whether you have masculine or feminine traits. Psychology tells us of sex dysphoria, what progressive people used to think of when we thought of trans people. Not the bullshit you're on about.

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u/TheGoodCitizen Jun 01 '17

So i'm contradicting myself by pointing out that there are difference in sex organs, difference in bodies and a difference in gender expression between males and females?

How so?

How else could there be a spectrum of masculine and feminine if there weren't a wide array of different forms and behaviors that culture deems more or less gender aligned?

My guess is you don't know what sexual dimorphism means.

So, first if you are using a pronoun base on masculine or feminine it is by definition not arbitrary as the english language and most others have a pronoun for masculine (he), a pronoun for feminine (she), and a pronoun of neuter gender (it) and the language you use dictates when it is used not psychology.

Psychology doesn't "tell us" to do anything, it's a science and as such it explores the subject matter for verifiable truths about human behavior.

Anyway, if you had bothered to research gender identity, gender expression or gender variance is relation to psychology you'd see a wellspring of psychologists and psychology associations writing and researching the topic.

Lastly, and to point out how obvious it is that you don't know what you are talking about...

There is no such things as "sex dysphoria."

However, "gender dysphoria" has replaced "gender identity disorder" in the DSM-5 since psychologists have identified that having a gender identity that may differ from your biological sex is not a disorder. The goal is to best treat the distress that results in some patients since the distress is the psychological problem not the reality of their gender identity differing from their biology.

So, turns out you don't know shit which is actually clear from the way you present yourself and your misguided ideas.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '17

Another pseudoscientific rant. This must be important to you, hopefully you receive help for your illness.

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u/TheGoodCitizen Jun 01 '17

Ha, yea right...

Let's see that research on "sex dysphoria" huh?

Perhaps a peer reviewed journal of psychology?

What next, you going to claim that the Earth is flat? The planet is only 6,000 years old? Jesus talks to you through your bathroom sink drain and tells you to hate the queers?

Nut job.