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Originally Posted by The Reaper
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Excellent.
This is what we have 40 years after Marlo Thomas and her ilk touted gender-free children in her musical "Free to Be... You and Me." Ideally, people would co-exist as "non-gendered" human persons in a neutralist world.
And we see how well that's worked out. Forty years later and we're still acting like... well... men and women. Forty years later the toy store is still stuffed with pink-themed girly toys and rough-and-tumble action toys for boys. Why? Because that's what sells. Hmm. Imagine that. Boys and girls
are different.
Gender is more than learned. It's in our DNA, right down to how we think and act - not just physical differences in strength and endurance.
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“One of the largest and most persistent differences between the sexes is children’s play preferences.” The female preference for nurturing play and the male propensity for rough-and-tumble hold cross-culturally and even cross-species. Researchers have found, for example, that female vervet monkeys play with dolls much more than their brothers, who prefer balls and toy cars. Nor can human reality be tossed aside. In all known societies, women tend to be the nurturers and men the warriors. Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker points to the absurdity of ascribing these universal differences to socialization: “It would be an amazing coincidence that in every society the coin flip that assigns each sex to one set of roles would land the same way.”
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Forty years later and now the dialog is about transgenders and women serving as if they were equal to the task. Free to Be, indeed.
Susan