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.
Is it normal to have multiple genders?
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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.