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Originally Posted by sedoniaraqs
Zorba, I am curious about your views -- when you say that the differences that matter between males and females that are biological and the rest is just made up.
As a biologist (albeit not in the area of human biology), I am curious to know what aspects of us (people) are non-biological. Be careful if you say environmental influences, because remember that humans create and modify their environments much more than other organisms do. It becomes very difficult to disentangle nature from nurture.
Sedonia
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Yes it is!
Its always hard to generalize - and I've haven't been very good at it lately, which is why I like face to face conversations best...
Ok, women have a different body structure from men. We all know this. That's biology. Then there's the "Brain wiring" thing. Better people than I argue endlessly about that. I feel that it is at least partly biology as well. But I could be wrong.
My point I've been trying to make is the artificiality of cultural norms - at least in the ultimate sense. It would seem that most people equate beauty with so called "Femininity". I disagree. Beauty is a human birthright - for BOTH (all?) genders.
What I wear, what you wear, what virtually everone wears is dictated, to greater or lesser extent, by man made cultural rules.
What we choose as activities in our spare time, or our professions, our interests, are also dictated by man made cultural rules.
Women have made great strides in recent decades towards rewriting or throwing out these rules. Men have done essentially NOTHING.
Hogwash sez I. Throw out as much as you possibly can, I want no boundaries around what I'm expected to do, or act like, or wear, or look like. If I'm not hurting anyone else, leave me the **** alone has always been my mantra.
Does this answer your question, or have I gotten off on a tangent (again!)?