@nirgal said:
@mrbojangles25: interesting. Which aspects do you think are innate?
Only physical differences?
Do you consider that no psychological or behavioral aspects are biology driven?
I don't know I have worked in east Asia, latin America and Europe, I have frequently travelled to Africa as well. In all territories I have been women and man seem to share the same differences regardless of cultural background.
I haven't seen a culture in which most men are feminine and most women are masculine.( I mean in mannerisms)
Where a noticeable amount of women are fascinated by machines or tools.
I haven't seen a society in which men are less promiscuos than women.
I haven't seen a society in which men value the height of their partner more than women or that women value the youth of their partner more than men.
I haven't seen a society in which men value long term relationship and children as much as women.
I haven't seen a society in which women are more likely to assume risks to earn money as much as men do .
I haven't seen a society in which women commit remotely as many crimes as men do .
I think culture is highly exportable. Feminine values in Canadian culture can easily make their way to Egypt, and so on and so forth.
Women have generally been treated as an inferior sex everywhere, with some exceptions.
When your history is so often dictated not by who rules the fairest, but by who can conquer and kill the most, then men tend to write the rules, and this applies everywhere. There have been some mighty queens and female leaders in history, but as I said, not as many as men simply because of that capacity for violence that men have due to innate abilities.
With that said, if in a cultural vacuum, I think you'd find young girls as entertained by video games as young boys. I think if women were raised and told it was OK to be good at math, to compete with boys, we'd see a lot more women in tech.
As time goes on, we've seen sexual liberation of women. In pornography, they are celebrated and earn far more money and renown than men. Women are super freaky these days compared to how things used to be; I told my 80-year old dad some stories from college and he was disgusted and to me that was just normal horny young person shenanigans. I believe his words were "You'd think the women were as horny as the men!" and my response was "They are, dad. They're probably hornier".
Same with professional careers; they were raised to be homemakers traditionally, universally...now they are being told it's OK to pursue careers.
People are living longer, there is no need to have kids in your 20's any more, you can focus on a career. You can adopt. You can use in vitro or surrogates or any other manner to have children.
Women also commit a shitload of crimes, it's more how we as a society discipline women. Again we think they are weak and frail so we are less likely to send them to prison.
All anecdotal by the way, just having a fun debate for insight and perspective😀
To answer your question, yes, I think mostly the physical aspects are the only innate ones. Physical and chemical. With that said, those differences can make a huge difference with everyone, male or female. Smaller men might be more risk adverse than larger men in physical activities, for example.
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