RE: Choosing who you are
June 19, 2019 at 9:53 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2019 at 10:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 18, 2019 at 1:16 pm)Drich Wrote: Science assigns gender moron not personal want. Science/biology identifies male and female sex organs and assigns gender based on which of the two organs a specimen has.Sex, sex is the term you're looking for. Biology identifies your sex based upon those traits.
Quote:Like wise science or again biology assigns race based on skin color.That's a difficult claim to make considering how the gingers weren't "white" until about a hundred years ago, the italians even more recently. Asians still aren't...but don't tell them that.......
I'm not sure that biology has ever assigned a race, and the prevailing academic opinion is that race realism is completely untenable.
Quote:Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...sts-argue/
What I think is interesting, in any case, is that in this context of "choosing" ones race...if anyone is choosing it at all, it's not you. Other people have chosen your race. What race you are is dictated by whatever social construct is making the assessment, in this..at least, it's very much like gender. You're told what you are, and what you're meant to be - but neither of those statements has to refer to any biological reality.
I guess some of us got lucky*, we find ourselves in a social construct that affirms those statements we know to be true and comfortably apprehend about ourselves. An enormous coincidence.
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