• garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      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.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        20 days ago

        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

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        21 days ago

        When Moses was walking through the desert for 40 years, he wasn’t just trying to fit in.

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      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 🤣

      • vortic@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        I love when people say “ackchyually you’re wrong” without offering an alternative.

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          21 days ago

          Replying to wrong comment?

          You’ll have to explain otherwise, since it makes no sense based on what I said.

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          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.

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          21 days ago

          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.