Two obnoxious girls go to Vegas. I feel bad for the hotel employee.

Sex is socially constructed, again going back to the reason of why we label things - to understand them as a whole.

How is that though? I thought sex was reflective of genitalia? Wouldn't gender be the socially constructed thing, since it has to do with "how you feel"? My only point is that the notion of "gender" (or whatever the word is for feeling like a girl/having your brain wired like a girl) can't philosophically mean very much, if anything. I feel like we're talking past each other a little bit also; I will try to explain my exact point of confusion precisely:

  • The trans movement does not want to define manhood/womanhood by genitalia ("I was born into a boy's body, but I'm really a girl.")
  • Manhood/womanhood, as we've agreed, cannot be defined by the liking stereotypical hobbies or whatever
  • Trans people often want to have genital reconstructive surgery; that is, to feel like a "man" is to feel like someone with a penis
  • So then, they are simply defining their manhood by genitalia, which is exactly what they didn't want to do

"Boy" and "girl" are only meaningful with the genital referent. If the most meaningful descriptor had to do with brain structure, then do you really suppose that there would only be "boy" and "girl" and not a million other things? In truth, there would be a million other things, and the ideas of "masculinity" and "femininity" would be meaningless. But we know that "masculinity" is a thing; it is the way that people with penises from some particular culture tend to behave.

In these ways the most meaningful descriptor of a person when it comes to being a boy/girl can't come down to brain structure. It doesn't matter that there are differences between boy and girl brains.

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