Gender is a social construct and Science

[caelanb]

I have listened to Leo's video on how on Gender being a social construct and want to say there is a problem with his definition of science, which leads to false conclusions of what science can and cannot do. Science does not only 'measure or record data' as said in the video, that is only a small but necessary part of science. With that definition it is obvious that you cannot do much, such as make categorize male and female based on empirical investigation of what each is. Science constitutes the scientific method; creating a hypothesis, doing the experiment that will test the hypothesis (measuring all the data), and getting to a conclusion to the hypothesis that was predicted, then publishing it (which is not necessary). This is what science entails (however, different methods of these steps can be used to make a study better or worse). And through this, one is doing science, which is way more than just measuring data.

So, from this inaccurate definition of science, it is easy to say that science cannot 'prove' the existence of a male of female (or anything really), because apparently that is not what science does. Actually you can, it is what science does. Through the process of the scientific method; A female has a vagina, a male has a penis; Take measurements/observations; and conclude.

That's my main problem with the video; an inaccurate definition of science, which allows one say to falsely say that science cannot prove anything.