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    5 months ago

    Regardless of what we call them, or how we understand them, the laws of physics nevertheless apply – as you eluded to in your example of animals being subject to gravity, despite their understanding of it.

    This is not true of race or gender. They exist exclusively as categorizations and narratives within our collective set of definitions and understandings. They do not exist outside of human culture.

    So at best what you’re saying is that our understanding of gravity is the result of a social construct. Which is just needlessly pedantic.

    But since that’s apparently what we’re doing then your statement is still incorrect. It should be:

    “Gravity” is a social construct.