Social Constructs Quotes

Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.

Katrina Karkazis

What I was pointing to was that, yeah, blackness is a fiction; whiteness is a fiction. When we live according to these categories, we’re living within a fiction. Of course, it’s a fiction with very real consequences.

Jess Row

Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we’d all be born in pairs; as couples.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.