What's funny is that the LGBTBBQ crowd clearly understand this concept on some level, as when they say that gender is a social construct they are completely correct, all language is a construct, a symbol, and thus not real in that sense. The mistake they make is that while they say gender is a social construct they don't actually believe the words coming out of their own mouth. They take hormones, they undergo surgery, they change their clothes, wear makeup, speak in a different way, why do all these things to change something that amounts to a social construct? These actions only make sense if it isn't a social construct, if words aren't just symbols but actually have some kind of reality themselves such that changing them has an impact on your experience, but this isn't the case whatsoever!
I can't even begin to imagine how someone could become anymore mixed up than this, this is truly peak 🤡🌎, anything else would just be a variation on the same clown world theme.
"all words are a symbol pointing at reality, rather than the reality itself"
This unpacks their insanity in one sentence!
What's funny is that the LGBTBBQ crowd clearly understand this concept on some level, as when they say that gender is a social construct they are completely correct, all language is a construct, a symbol, and thus not real in that sense. The mistake they make is that while they say gender is a social construct they don't actually believe the words coming out of their own mouth. They take hormones, they undergo surgery, they change their clothes, wear makeup, speak in a different way, why do all these things to change something that amounts to a social construct? These actions only make sense if it isn't a social construct, if words aren't just symbols but actually have some kind of reality themselves such that changing them has an impact on your experience, but this isn't the case whatsoever!
I can't even begin to imagine how someone could become anymore mixed up than this, this is truly peak 🤡🌎, anything else would just be a variation on the same clown world theme.
"why do all these things to change something that amounts to a social construct?"
Indeed. You nailed it again.