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  • zea@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFrench rule
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    8 days ago

    Gender’s an overloaded term. Are you talking about the internal feeling, the way someone’s treated by others, the shared sense of a variable that differentiates people, social institutions, ideas, or something else?

    Those of course are all related very strongly, but they’re not the same thing. Different models of gender will define of differently, but that’s usually just to best fit the area they’re applicable to. If a philosopher tells you gender is a social construct, that’s because they’re analyzing things through the lens of social construction. Very useful, but merely one perspective.













  • All this talk of porn is bad for you or rots your brain, but I never hear any evidence, or even fully fleshed out reasoning.

    If it’s inherently harmful, I expect to see the inherent harm. Closest I get is seeing a few particular scenarios of an unhealthy relationship with it or people telling me there’s some invisible harm I can’t see and they can’t show me (bit unfalsifiable, don’t you think?).

    Showing brain rot requires showing that it has an effect on the brain/mind (which it probably does, as almost any activity will) AND that effect is net bad. Again, I’ve never seen much evidence that the effect is inherently bad.

    As long as you’re managing it right - noticing any affects and deciding if that’s worth stopping over - I trust you to regulate yourself. Everybody’s different, so who am I to say something is bad for everyone or that nobody can have a healthy relationship with something?