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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Is "food" a social construct? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hear me out. There's nothing innate to an object that makes it "food". It's an attribute we give to certain things that meet certain qualities, i.e. being digestible, nutritious, perhaps tasty or satisfying in some way, etc. We could really ingest just about anything, but we call the stuff that's edible "food". Does that make it a social construct?

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[+] Cybermonk_Taiji 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm just waiting for some dipshit to wander in here and talk about how we need to "examine the relationship" with food and start calling it something like "people fuel" or some other bullshit term.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have never once at any point inserted a "should" into this conversation, besides maybe like "you shouldn't be a dick".

is that what's so scary to you? that thinking leads to shoulding? take your fear out elsewhere please

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Did you wave goodbye to the handle as you flew off of it?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you genuinely think that it is stupid to be wondering about this? That's a really sad way to live. Anyway, I hope you have a good day today, despite how mean you've been to me. Maybe it made you feel better to be mean to me, but I know from experience that you're usually mean when things aren't going well. Good luck.