• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To call something a social construct doesn’t diminish the impact of that thing. Race is a social construct as well, and that too has very real impacts on people. Much of what humans interact with on a daily basis are social constructs. That doesn’t make those things meaningless or trivial.

    Marriage is a social construct, but that doesn’t mean I can go around acting like I’m single without consequence.