Socks keep your shoes from absorbing sweat and help prevent blisters. They’re useful beyond the social construct.
Ok but wearing shoes is a social construct. People didn’t wear shoes for thousands of years before shoes came along and they were just fine and full of blisters.
To some degree that’s true. But these days the ground contains more dangerous objects than it used to. Specifically hazardous man-made stuff
If it was just nature and we still mostly had like forest floor and such, then probably for the most part it’d be safe yeah. Well, with the exception of plants or animals that could damage your feet or bite you
The cholla cactus:
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Deleted by GOD?!?!?
When Moses was walking through the desert for 40 years, he wasn’t just trying to fit in.
Wearing shoes is definitely not just a social construct. They protect your feet.
Protecting feet is a social construct.
You are a social construct.
And brother, I’m about to collapse.
Functional construct
Not wearing stinky shoes is a social construct.
I got me some of them washable insoles
washable incels
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Arguments like these don’t work with kids. Let them experience themselves what is best for them. And have spare socks ready in case they change their mind afterwards
Sure, if that’s a reasonable option, but letting the kid hurt themselves isn’t always practical. Letting the kids find out ‘messing with the pot of boiling water is bad’ the hard way, as an example, is not what I would consider good parenting.
I think it’s pretty clear they’re referring to uncomfortable stuff, not dangerous stuff. Obviously don’t let them do dangerous stuff.
Exactly. Always protect your little ones. It is okay if they experience negative consequences, as long as it doesn’t harm them.
Trying to drink from a glass of water and get fully soaked is okay, even if the experience is not entirely positive.
Touching a hot oven is not okay. Here you have to protect them. The best you can do is try to explain why it is not okay to touch it.
Even if the argument doesn’t persuade them at the time it still makes sense to point it out to them so that they are (hopefully) aware of it later.
Fully agree. Always verbalize your thoughts and intentions. Give the kids the ability to learn.
I don’t know what the social aspect is apart from how the socks appear, but this isn’t why they exist.
Edit: Damn. Some of you are threatened by not knowing what a social construct is but really want to argue about socks instead of asking DDG so you can understand wtf is going on before leaving a comment.
I’d be proud of this shit show, OP 🤣
I love when people say “ackchyually you’re wrong” without offering an alternative.
Replying to wrong comment?
You’ll have to explain otherwise, since it makes no sense based on what I said.
Then why do they exist?
Warmth, protection, hygiene.
If you were born the only person on earth, you would eventually have something like socks on your own accord. This is function, not social. They wouldn’t be Xmas themed though, since no society exists to have invented Xmas and to show off your socks to.
Social constructs are, by definition, ideas or concepts.
The guy they found frozen in a glacier in the Alps had grasses stuffed into his moccasins as primitive socks.
if you didn’t wear socks then you’ll have to wash your shoes daily or risk getting something like a yeast infection of the foot or athletes foot.
Right, so what Boomer already said.
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.
The next time they say “Socks are a social construct.” Tell them that blisters are punishment for man’s hubris.
Teenagers sometimes have to get blisters a few times before learning that it’s wiser to do the smart thing even if it wasn’t your idea.
Then again, I know a few adults like that too.
“Sure, but your feet would still get cold.”
Many things are social constructs, but we also live in social groups
Yup, if you can manage to live off the grid and not have to worry about social constructs again, go for it, though I certainly wouldn’t recommend it.
You would still be carrying the social constructs you have internalized throughout your life. You probably have the ability to think logically, and refer to things by their names, but logical thinking and language are also social constructs.
Yeah, but nobody minds social constructs they like.
lonely
'Your allowance is a social construct, so I guess we won’t be doing that anymore…"
Next time the kid asks for an allowance, say that money is a social construct
parents feeding children is a social construct.
See, I dunno about that one. I have a very strange and almost primal urge to feed kids. I think it’s generic programming.
It took me a while to learn to control my rising angst when my son started deciding he didn’t want to eat much some days. Had to learn to trust what he’s saying and play it cool with bargaining with him to try things he’s decided he suddenly doesn’t like and eat just a few of the key food groups he hasn’t eaten before deciding he’s full.
Same, there are few things more stressful to me than when my daughter doesn’t eat. Learning to be okay with a sorry dinner is a process I’m still going through
I absolutely do not have that programming.
A sandwich is a social construct. But a social construct isn’t always a sandwich.
Technically clothes are a social construct.
Religion as well.
Clothes as a concept started with utilitarian purposes like staying warm or cool. There are a lot of social constructs around clothes including when and what is worn in what contexts, but not the reason they exist in the first place.
"Yes, but that doesn’t automatically mean it’s wrong or a bad thing.
Your mom is a social construct.
Fuckin’ gottem.
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.
Reminds me of the time I saw people arguing on Reddit about the phrase “time is a social construct” where some people were completely incapable of understanding what that means and conflating the concept of time with the fundamental physics thingymcgee (idk how to call it and entity feels wrong).
People were trying so hard to explain that minutes, months, seasons, etc. are all arbitrary things made up only for them to retort with “but a year is a full rotation of the sun” or “seasons exist because that’s how the planet changes its climate”.
the fundamental physics thingymcgee (idk how to call it and entity feels wrong)
Your not wrong, “thingymcgee” is the technical term but it’s still a social construct just like gravity.
Guess we’re all social constructs (tf that mean)
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It is a social construct, and we live in a society… so put your damn socks on
