because then you add in things like class politics, race politics, sexual politics.

and their associated oppressions by various groups who hold power and who's interest it is to stay in power. to stay in power they will oppress those below them through any means posisble.

you get things like orientalism- identifying others by how different they are to you [eg: look at those savages etc.], essentialism- the idea that people are born not made [eg. when human nature is invoked in arguements], etc.

social constructs aren't specifically wrong if they aren't held up as the one and one right way of existing within a society.

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on kickstands: f your bike's in your house, why not just hang/lean it on the wall? and if it's in the street, why isn't it locked to something [and presumably leaning on the thing it's locked to]?

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sparky