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[–]emptiedriver 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If sex, male and female, exists in mammals but not in non-mammal species, then sex is a social construct.

How do you draw this conclusion? Is warm bloodedness a social construct? Is hair? I mean what is NOT a social construct if it only counts if it applies universally across all species and types... Are you trying to make some broader claim about reality being a social construct? If so, sex is the same level of social construct that a rock about to hit your head is, which is to say, it has real consequences that can't be changed by you personally or even with the agreement of your peers deciding that it is not so.

Human beings reproduce sexually, as in A+B, and each of us has a body that can provide one or the other part of the necessary equation. We have lots of other characteristics, but a sexed body is one of them and it isn't dependent on the traits of other animals or plants