Some social constructs serve a purpose.
Socks serve a practical purpose when combined with shoes. They prevent rubbing (blisters) and they keep the skin cells and oils from your feet from the insides of your shoes.
Shoes serve a practical purpose in that they protect your feet from rocks, glass, and hot pavement. Did our ancestors need shoes? No. But humans have made our environments less friendly to bare feet
Our ancestors DID need shoes. Footprints in South Africa dated to be between 75K and 136K years old show footwear in use. We invented shoes possibly 100,000 years before we invented written language.
It’s really social norms, not anything else. There are probably more sharp and pointy things in the wilderness, then where we walk day to day.
My dream would be able to walk around the office barefoot and have it not even be considered weird.
Hookworm infections are definately in decline due to wearing shoes. Ill take shoes over hookworms.
I don’t think anyone’s feet would enjoy walking on asphalt at noon at 35°+
Plus people who lived in the wilderness famously had long lives
Not really. Socks used to be the layer of what you wore first if needed, and then wrapped your feet in animal skins as the extra outer layer we would now consider “shoes.” Shoes and socks were just sort of a combined foot bag/bundle for thousands of years, and many cultures developed socks and/or shoes independently, meaning they are not a social construct if numerous cultures are inventing them for practical purposes.
Tell that kid that yes, everything is a social construct. But without social constructs he’d be dead. Wearing socks might be all that’s keeping him alive.
Your mum is a social construct.
we all live in our own prisons
Having a shit is a natural process, however doing it privately in toilets is nowadays somewhat of a social construct.
So, should I stop using the toilet and use your bed instead?(Edit: I didn’t think I needed to add an /s but…)
Not accepting every social construct isn’t the same as rejecting every social construct.
You could’ve just said, “please shit in my bed.”
Nah, use the designated shitting street just like everyone else
The proper retort would be, “so?”
Just because something is a social construct doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing to be ignored.
Being alive is a social construct. Humans decided that some things counted as alive, and other things did not. Nature doesn’t care if a bunch of chemical reactions are happening inside a cell, or in a glass tube. It has no objective definition of “alive”.
Why is everyone is this comment section saying the same thing? Did I miss the part where they argue it’s a bad thing?
Something being a social construct doesn’t mean it’s not real, or ignoring it won’t negatively affect you.
Laws, money, etc. are all social constructs.
The next time they say “Socks are a social construct.” Tell them that blisters are punishment for man’s hubris.
Your mom is a social construct.
Haha, I’m just picturing a dad saying, “so is your mom and I fucked the shit out of her. Now go put on your socks.”
Edit: stupid autocorrect. stupid me for not noticing.
Fuckin’ gottem.
Wrong, wearing socks is required to not get blisters. And shoes keep featsies safe.
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Funny, but wear your god damn socks when wearing hiking footwear etc. Even in the summer. You will suffer horribly, otherwise
If people don’t like social constructs, go build a shack in wilderness and don’t ever make contact with other human beings again. That isn’t to say there are things we do for tradition, or societal norms that constrain us in silly ways but “social construct” is not some get out of jail free excuse.
“Not accepting every social construct isn’t the same as rejecting every social construct.”
Also saying to go live in the wilderness alone to a child doesn’t sound like the greatest idea
A society is a social construct and there is a social contract to live in one.
You know, we’re living in a society! We’re supposed to act in a civilized way!
"Yes, but that doesn’t automatically mean it’s wrong or a bad thing.
