Why LGBT+ people say gender roles are a social construct and they aren’t important while at the same time they give so much importance to gender role at the point they want to be perceived as what they biologically aren’t?
Why LGBT+ people say gender roles are a social construct and they aren’t important while at the same time they give so much importance to gender role at the point they want to be perceived as what they biologically aren’t?
Okay, so, first, none of us are biologically masculine or feminine, because those aren’t biological concepts, they’re social ones.
People who are biologically male tend to be assigned masculinity, and same with females and femininity. And just because something is socially constructed doesn’t mean it is not important — as a million memes will tell you, we live in a society.
I think the heart of the issue is who assigned the gender roles: The gender role you want to assign me isn’t important; the gender role I assign myself IS.