As I've said elsewhere on this thread: masculinity and femininity are artificial social constructs and the sooner we all get over these antiquated concepts the better it will be.
No, they're biological reality. There's penis or vagina, XY or XX. Research has shown that male babies are predominantly attracted to boy toys and female babies to dolls.
I don't understand how a 70 year old can have absorbed so much hogwash from a liberal college's women studies course like the millennialist are all exposed to.
Actually I've never done a women's studies and what research are you talking about? Babies don't show preferences for gendered toys until they're taught to.
You don't seem to know the difference between biological gender - female or male and rarely intersex - and femininity and masculinity, which don't necessarily correlate with physical gender.
I guess that's biological sex..no worries I know that one.I mean gender..identity. To be honest I'm biologically fem but I liked both girl and boy toys when I was little(and my parents allowed me to have both),plus my parents make me wear both girl and boy clothes(except the skirt). I grew up feeling neutral on my gender and I was used calling myself an either son or daughter of my parents because of it and my parents doesn't seem to mind. These things seemed to make me...not straight in a literal personality and identity sense. Until now my clothes are still mixed,not just with jeans(I know girls wear them) but actually pants and shorts and shirts for guys itself,and I've already been used to it(still no skirts though,mom won't allow me wtf). Plus I ended up a pan/genderblind all over the years(or call it bisexual if that's what you wish). And I get awkward with my own genitals at times,and I'm sure straight males and females don't usually experience that. Now how will you explain that? I'm asking this cause I think you can at least give answer without being angry.
I agree with your below comment about the ridiculousness of arbitrarily attaching gender roles and "feelings" of gender onto everything. But with that said, personally I don't think gender roles are totally socially constructed.
Aspects of it are for sure, like women wearing pink and men wearing blue, make-up and skirts etc. But I think it is real to say there is a GENERAL way men are more likely to behave and a GENERAL way women are more likely to behave, based on thousands of years of evolution and epigenetics. That's not to say there aren't anomalies, I'm one and that's ok, but most people do comfortably fit (more or less anyway) into the gender roles of their birth sex without any problem.
I think the "problem", if there is one, is the absolute enforcement of strict gender roles onto people. Nobody should be forced or pressured to behave a certain way because of their birth sex, just because most people of my birth sex follow a certain "rule" it doesn't mean I should have to.
People fit into gender roles because that is what we are taught to do and that's not without problems for anyone who doesn't conform with the expected gender stereotypes and for society in general.
Given that stereotyping begins so early in life, sometimes even before birth, there's no way of knowing for sure if gender artificial constructs, but I'd love to see a society without those expectations - then we'd know for sure.
No it won't be better. I like men to be men and women to be women.
I was in the Apple store today and the men looked like girls and the girls looked like guys and you know what. I considered them all freaks and really started to hate my generation.
Is it normal to have multiple genders?
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As I've said elsewhere on this thread: masculinity and femininity are artificial social constructs and the sooner we all get over these antiquated concepts the better it will be.
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No, they're biological reality. There's penis or vagina, XY or XX. Research has shown that male babies are predominantly attracted to boy toys and female babies to dolls.
I don't understand how a 70 year old can have absorbed so much hogwash from a liberal college's women studies course like the millennialist are all exposed to.
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Actually I've never done a women's studies and what research are you talking about? Babies don't show preferences for gendered toys until they're taught to.
You don't seem to know the difference between biological gender - female or male and rarely intersex - and femininity and masculinity, which don't necessarily correlate with physical gender.
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https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/06/03/infants-show-a-preference-for-toys-that-match-their-gender-before-they-know-what-gender-is/
I do know the difference between sex and gender. Sex is biological reality, gender is a feminist construct.
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Feminist? You mean the women stuff? Does being female had to do something with it?
I guess that's biological sex..no worries I know that one.I mean gender..identity. To be honest I'm biologically fem but I liked both girl and boy toys when I was little(and my parents allowed me to have both),plus my parents make me wear both girl and boy clothes(except the skirt). I grew up feeling neutral on my gender and I was used calling myself an either son or daughter of my parents because of it and my parents doesn't seem to mind. These things seemed to make me...not straight in a literal personality and identity sense. Until now my clothes are still mixed,not just with jeans(I know girls wear them) but actually pants and shorts and shirts for guys itself,and I've already been used to it(still no skirts though,mom won't allow me wtf). Plus I ended up a pan/genderblind all over the years(or call it bisexual if that's what you wish). And I get awkward with my own genitals at times,and I'm sure straight males and females don't usually experience that. Now how will you explain that? I'm asking this cause I think you can at least give answer without being angry.
I agree with your below comment about the ridiculousness of arbitrarily attaching gender roles and "feelings" of gender onto everything. But with that said, personally I don't think gender roles are totally socially constructed.
Aspects of it are for sure, like women wearing pink and men wearing blue, make-up and skirts etc. But I think it is real to say there is a GENERAL way men are more likely to behave and a GENERAL way women are more likely to behave, based on thousands of years of evolution and epigenetics. That's not to say there aren't anomalies, I'm one and that's ok, but most people do comfortably fit (more or less anyway) into the gender roles of their birth sex without any problem.
I think the "problem", if there is one, is the absolute enforcement of strict gender roles onto people. Nobody should be forced or pressured to behave a certain way because of their birth sex, just because most people of my birth sex follow a certain "rule" it doesn't mean I should have to.
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People fit into gender roles because that is what we are taught to do and that's not without problems for anyone who doesn't conform with the expected gender stereotypes and for society in general.
Given that stereotyping begins so early in life, sometimes even before birth, there's no way of knowing for sure if gender artificial constructs, but I'd love to see a society without those expectations - then we'd know for sure.
No it won't be better. I like men to be men and women to be women.
I was in the Apple store today and the men looked like girls and the girls looked like guys and you know what. I considered them all freaks and really started to hate my generation.
Btw none of them were attractive to me.