Germaine Greer makes a very prescient and astute distinction between the biological reality of sex and the social construct of gender:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1633399532544495617
Germaine Greer makes a very prescient and astute distinction between the biological reality of sex and the social construct of gender:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1633399532544495617
If femininity isn't biological then maybe gays should stop acting effeminate then, it's creepy.
The only women complaining that "femininity is artificial conditioning" are the ones who refuse to maintain femininity and thus miss out on all its benefits. They choose to masculinize themselves, and when men choose the superior women as partners, they convince themselves that the chosen women must secretly be miserable. Cope and seethe, I guess.
Nature/nurture arguments aside... Is this necessarily a bad thing? Women generally score higher on emotional intelligence and empathy, and men are more intelligent overall, as well as physically stronger. Women are better at enduring long-term pain. Does it not benefit society to guide people into the positions that best utilize the skills they are biologically predisposed towards having? Sure, we shouldn't rag on people for choosing unconventional paths, but if gender roles were actually harmful, they would have disappeared naturally a long time ago, but they're still here.