Can a social construct have rights?

[Hаwk_Tuаh]

Yes

No

Depends on its gender

[Kaneki05]

If it can not then... we wouldn't have human rights in the first place. Since ya know the whole concept of human rights is based on a social construct.

Imagine saying no to this lmao.

[Hаwk_Tuаh]

r/clevercomeback!

[sawno]

I see what you did there, clever.
Serious answer would be no but the people you apply the construct to do.

[Hаwk_Tuаh]

Whom do we apply this construct to?

[FemPuppy]

... rude and also you definitely like social constructs. Just not that one

[Hаwk_Tuаh]

Ouch

[abc3643]

Gender is not a social construct.

[Hаwk_Tuаh]

No qualified expert with a master's degree in psychology has ever agreed with you on record.

[abc3643]

No qualified expert with a master's degree in psychology has ever studied physics or systems engineering.

In the words of my late great physics advisor:
"Psychology... a dubious science"

However, it will cut the psychologists slack and express my answer differently but I don't have time to do a very good job.

There is something called fuzzy set theory (*) which is 60 years old and has to do with labeling things.
For instance, you might be at the paint store and shown a color tile and everyone would say "That's blue". But then you see another color tile... It's not as blue as "blue" but it has some green... but it's not "green" so what is it? What happens is that people begin to disagree when blue stops being blue and is something other than blue... It might be "bluish" but it's not blue.

This is because blue is a "social construct" in a sense. We have this fuzzy idea of what blue is and that we more-or-less agree on. But, from nature's perspective, there is no such thing as blue. There is simply electromagnetic radiation with a range of frequencies that we interpret as blue. Nature doesn't interpret blue; we do. That's what makes it a social construct in a sense. All of language is a social construct.

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[abc3643]

From Nature's perspective, gender is very similar to color, although a bit more complex.
This is because gender - the sense of what reproductive sex you are - is rooted in brain development. In a cis-gendered person, the brain is constructed so that the individual senses that their reproductive sex matches that of their genitalia. In a transgendered person, its the opposite.
But, the brain isn't necessarily uniform. It's developed in the womb and over time. Thus, it can be that there is a mix... just like a mix of colors.

In short, like a spectrum of colors, there could be a spectrum of gender. So, in this sense, gender labels like "male and female" might be considered as social constructs. However, sex itself is binary. We have male and female. That doesn't mean that a person is either just male or female though; like the brain, the genitals can be a mix too. This is why we have hermaphrodites and other people with genital issues.

Anyway, why I said that gender is not a social construct is because gender exists... it is the sense of the self's reproductive identity. There's no escaping that. The labels we may assign to gender we can say are a social construct.

I think the psychologists would understand and agree with what I am saying.

(*) Google fuzzy set theory and Lotfi Zadeh.

[Syntosi]

Sure. Should it? Probably not.

[Dargil]

What social construct us that?

[DrPepper12]

Examples?