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grotesquehorse

being gay doesnt excuse you from being transphobic and racist lmao whoops

quadriparesis-deactivated201908

“biological sex is a social construct” doesn’t mean “chromosomes, anatomy, hormones, and genitalia don’t exist”. it means “these exist, but assigning roles, labels, and expectations to certain combinations of these characteristics is a social construct, and an unnecessary and pointless (actually harmful) one at that”.

loonaluv-deactivated20220531

Yes and no? (I’m not fully satisfied with the way this post goes about it.) Your physical genitalia exists outside of the discourse as a physical object with no meaning. However, we can only make sense of our genitalia within the discourse. The words we assign (the signifiers) to signify a certain combination of chromosomes (the signified) are arbitrary symbolic signs (meaning that they work based on culturally agreed upon conventions) and the *gendered connotations* of the sign produced by the word used to describe a specific genitalia is based on *cultural conventions* (and conventions take a long time to change and are often based on the ideologies of the dominant culture) and THAT GENDERED CONNOTATION AND YOUR GENITALIA AS A SIGN WITHIN THE DISCOURSE is a social construct.

Thank you for coming to my mini semiotics lecture. It’s more complex than this but this also relates to Judith Butler’s theory of Gender Performativity (NOT Gender Performance those are two different things don’t get it twisted) and then goes into the power dynamic between dominant and subordinate cultures and how we confirm or reject (or do a mix of both) ideologies when deciding signs (Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding).