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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 39 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I want to understand tho. Like, yeah I don't need to, to not be an asshole; but I still want to understand everything I don't. I'm curious like that.

[-] randomname01@feddit.nl 29 points 2 months ago

Also, because gender is a social construct, it requires that enough people understand it to a sufficient degree.

[-] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

As opposed to French, which famously exists as a natural truth of the universe. Even if we had never discovered French it would still be there... waiting.

[-] randomname01@feddit.nl 12 points 2 months ago

I think the language analogy is actually very apt, because not every has to understand it, but the people you want to speak French with necessarily have to know it. Otherwise it just doesn’t fulfil any purpose.