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  • seralth@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? (Transracial referring to people who identify as another race like Rachel Dolezal)English
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    3 days ago

    Assuming race, As a white person you are going to struggle to get others to see you as black. Cause those are social constructs. YOU do not get to decide what others see you as when it comes to a social construct. Because the very point of a social construct is that it’s the general social frame work used to see others as.

    Ethnicity on the other hand, as a white skin tone person if you grew up in Africa in a tribe of indigenous people then you would be an indigenous person. Ethnicity only cares about the facts.

    To mirror that to transgender.

    Gender is a social construct, it’s what others see you as and how you categorize into a given communities framework. This differs between communities. For example what defines a male gender in ancient Rome is different then ancient Scotland. Both having male genders that quite literally just do not exist in one or the other.

    While sex is the physical only caring about the factual biological. The actual flesh and reproductive organs. You either have them, or you don’t. Primary or secondary. You can alter them with modern medicine sure, but even after alteration. It still only matters what you have. Are you a male producer or female reproducer. Are you functional or not. Do you have both sets? That’s basically it, sex just cares about the facts it’s not socially constructed. You can’t argue that someone with a penis does not have a penis.

    Ethnicity tho, doesn’t have a modern medicine equivalent. It just is what it is. You can’t change facts, so your rather stuck with it. Unlike a penis.

  • seralth@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•What the fuck youEnglish
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    9 days ago

    So long as gaben draws breath that won’t happen, and his children are VERY in line with their fathers vision and choices from all appearances.

    So at the earliest we have at least one generation after gaben that we likely won’t have to worry.

    Typically it’s the grandkids that ruin everything tho when it comes to family businesses. Normally cause the kids suck ass at teaching their parents wisdom.

    And the great grandkids basically ALWAYS ruin everything.

    Still weird to think of valve as a privately owned family business. But it is.