Is gender a social construct?

game_r · 2018-01-15T03:24:09+00:00

Feminism is a social construct.

perplexedm · 2018-01-15T06:24:38+00:00

Sexual Di-morphism is not a social construct. Penis is not a social construct, nor is vagina.

Ideas spewed by chronically deranged feminuts are baseless social constructs, should be made illegal for cheating masses.

MuslimGangEnrichment · 2018-01-15T08:11:57+00:00

No, it's a genetic characteristic.

j89k · 2018-01-15T04:11:41+00:00

Yes. Sociologist here. Gender is a social construct. This is why the definition of masculinity or femininity changes over time and space. What it means to be manly today differs from what it meant to be manly 100 years ago. Similarly, what is considered masculine (or feminine) in the United States is different than what is considered masculine (or feminine) in China. You don't have to go all the way to China to illustrate what I mean either. Even in the same country there is variance by region. Think of the term Southern Belle - it conjures images of a particular feminine demeanor specific to the American South.

bigbronze · 2018-01-15T02:37:37+00:00

Sorta kinda. Like scientifically speaking, males produce more testosterone while females produce estrogen; but also society does have defined gender roles that we humans for some reason obey. I.E. men don’t cry. That being said, not following those gender roles doesn’t make you less of a man; nor is a lack of testosterone. That’s why some people say gender is fluid; you can act like the other sex and take hormonal supplements to match that of the other sex; so by society rules, a man can easily change to a woman and a woman to a man. Now their biological sex is different from that. Genetically speaking, your DNA will say you are this; irrelevant of how you act or fit into society, your DNA will dictate your sex. A man cannot become a woman and then have a naturally born baby created in his uterus, and a woman can’t get a penis and then impregnate another woman. How you identify in society does make gender a social construct, but biologically, that’s permanent.

ThePigmanAgain · 2018-01-15T00:08:36+00:00

Yes. Gender is a social construct. It is sex that is the doing of nature. Unfortunately, everyone insists on conflating the two in order to make it harder to have a sensible argument about these things.

Pithong · 2018-01-15T03:47:15+00:00

It looks like the average user here thinks sex and gender are not separate things. So due to this transwomen are as much a part of the mens right's movement as any other "man". Growing your hair out doesn't make you less of a man, neither does growing out your nails and painting them, nor does keeping all your body hair shaved, facial hair shaved, nor does wearing earrings and bracelets and rings, nor does wearing lipstick, foundation, eyeliner, eyeshadow, long fake eyelashes, nor does going on T blockers or taking estrogen supplements, nor does wearing womens clothes, bras, panties, pantyhose, high heels, nor does liking "cute" things, etc.. etc..

There are examples of men doing each one of those things, often separately. There are men who wear rings and earrings but are otherwise presenting as highly masculine (and they won't wearing dangling earrings or tiny "cute" rings). There are men who wax their eyebrows but are otherwise highly masculine, men who have no body hair but are otherwise highly masculine, etc.. etc..

Some "men" do all of the above things and more, they immerse themselves in "woman" culture, a culture that historically only female sexed humans were allowed by society to pursue. Lots of people want to call this separation in culture "gender", but the guys here disagree. Once a man always a man, so femininity is as much a male thing as masculinity is. We must fight for men's rights even when men are wholly women in terms of culture and presentation because of their xy genes (and regardless of their current hormone levels and secondary sex characteristics).

If you were born with a dick then you are a man. But you cannot deny men the right to present as historically only women could present, you cannot deny a man the right to change his hormone levels, to change his voice, to undergo surgery to gain larger breasts or lose his genitals. We are just humans, humans can like feminine things regardless of their genes. XY humans are not always (or ever, I would argue) innately drawn towards historically masculine things, it is not up to you to tell other humans how to present and how to be, to deride them as not human and not allowed in society.

Title	Is gender a social construct?
Author	gasoline-rainb0w
Upvotes	1
Comments	29
Date	January 14, 2018 6:59 PM UTC (8 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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