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Is "food" a social construct?
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This is one of those gender vs sex dealies.
Food is not a social construct. But meals are.
ruh roh what if sex is also a social construct
nah not going down that rabbit hole
(wonder why we chose to group biological factors XYZ to determine those classes instead of classes based on ABC tho...)
Can we also at least stick our head down that rabbit hole? Because holy shit yes that nebulous hybrid of social convention and biological (on a species level) necessity is also where food fits.....
(I am referring of course to sex the act, not the synonym for gender...)
I was actually speaking about the biological classification "sex", not the act! I hadn't thought about the act as a social construct, but I guess it obviously is. I'm reminded of the old lesbian conundrum: "Was what we just did 'sex' or...?"