It shows her gradual evolution into someone who wasn't just fighting against oppressors & trying to tear something down, but as a person who'd building something in it's wake, someone on the "other side of the desk". Someone who has to make hard decisions about what's good for the whole of society, rather than individual liberties for one person. (This was a debate had between Kirk & Spock throughout the TOS movies as well).

I see people all day long, this or that is a social construct. Pitchforks in hand, ready to tear it all down, with absolutely fuck all of an idea of what to build in its wake or what it's like being on the side building something, with little to no real organizing (beyond twitter followers) & plans of action to build another, better construct out of the rubble. And by "a plan", I mean something executable. Something with a chance of success that won't merely crumble in the power vacuum created when you tear that construct down, where your vision gets lost to the control of other powers that be,. Something people organize, discuss & come to a consensus on. Not these passing thoughts you make to yourself about the way things would ideally be. Everyone has those ideas. Making them more than ideas, while you're tearing down something else - that's what needs to be done. That's the hard fucking work. The tearing it down, that's the easy part. When building something, you'll eventually have to wear the bad guy hat too, & one day someone will say that what you support is merely a "social construct" & take cheap shots at the harms it causes without an ounce of an idea of what it took to build it or maintain it. What sacrifices (ideological or otherwise) & compromises had to be made along the way.

Lets note how gender is a social construct because, of what? 0.07% - 1.0% of the population violates how most people typically think of it. Great. But you have to stop & think of all the ways we've integrated this concept into our worlds, how other cultures outside of the US have, our traditions, our interactions, how it may have served some purpose in holding family units together under different conditions? Maybe it had less to do with "patriarchy" & more to do with class survival? If you pull the strings & unravel it all, are you so certain you'll like the reality it creates - even if you see the harms the construct creates before your eyes right now. Is the hell you know, worse than the hell you don't?

This is how the grand idealism of anarchists & communists became gravely disillusioned when the Bolshevick revolution happened. When the moderates in Syria stood up for revolution, they had no idea the complicated interconnectedness of western powers, russia, terror groups & so forth that would rip their nation to shreds. Tearing down religions, governments, core cultural constructs, has a way of turning out in a way no one ever intended, no one planned for things to "end up this way". Because the fire of youth could only see the injustice of what was done in that construct's name. The youth has this tendency to think they're special because they call bullshit on constructs. That's just step one. Your first step doesn't make you clever, or insightful. It just doesn't.