This is a week analogy.. french only works as a means of communication because it has internal rules that are objective (as in different people understand the same/very similar thing when hearing/seeing a symbol/word).

Singularity of experience is cool, but anything social requires communication/synchronization.

Even though gender is used as a box or definition people are forced to fit into (and this is bad), reducing human experience to a blackbox kind of singularity is a highly individualist take.

You can work on understanding each other without forcing anyone to fit into your definition..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Additionally, if "nobody gets to tell anybody else how they experience themselves", then it follows that nobody gets to tell anybody else how they 'experience' you, either. After all, how you describe someone is your interpretation of them, you're not dictating anything to them or forcing anything upon them by doing so.

If you live in Scandinavia, you might consider someone "short" who other people would not consider short, simply because that region of the world has a higher height average than most other places. So maybe in the US, you're not short (re the 5'9" average, iirc) if you're a 5'10" man, but you very well might be, to someone who rarely meets men under 6 feet tall.

So this is basically an argument for 'think of yourself however you like, but I'm going to see you the way I see you, deal with it', which is obviously not the OP's intent, lol.

[–] kwomp2 1 points 2 months ago

It'd be more like "ah interesting we have different scales, let's get to the bottom of this"

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