> Frankly, when people say that _anything_ is "socially constructed," I
> suspect that people are simply using quasi-technical terms to look
> sophisticated.
>
> do you have an alternative phrase that would make it more acceptable
> to you?
Like I said: it'd help to define what it is you're _talking_ about before we start assigning phrases to it.
We could call it "the thing, you know, the thing with the stuff on it, that's kind of like that other thing."