i'm under the assumption that a system that doesn't have traditional gender roles (like men -need- to be super tough and strong, women need to be the caretakers), etc, would generally be a society where people would be more free to be who they are as opposed to what they assume they are -supposed- to do
but i understand that a society like that ever happening is v. idealistic
no, there's nothing wrong with doing what you like to do. the issue is mainly when people can't do things because they are told it's only allowed for certain genders to do so
"In humans, the BSTc has been shown to develop differentially in people with a gender identity disorder called transsexuality, in which subjects express the strong feeling of being born in the wrong body. Indeed, these studies showed that the size of the BSTc in male-to-female transsexuals is similar to that found in control women, whereas in the only female-to-male transsexual studied so far the BSTc size was similar to that found in men [94,180]. Therefore, it might be that the human BSTc has a role in human gender identity, however, it must be noted that this is merely correlational, and require far more studies to clearly elucidate the functions of the human BSTc."
That's when it directly talks about transexuality, but the entire study is about how our brains have different genetics depending on the gender.
i will concede that the article itself doesn't talk about gender -perception- as much as i initially thought it did, as i was misunderstanding certain parts of it/comparing it with other things
I like gender roles because I can bake and appear to be doing something hard but I enjoy it and then send arcbell off to do some task like buying toilet paper which I loathe
Psychology is a major social science (if that's what you were arguing above, thecolonel) but social sciences absolutely do not provide the rock solid empirical evidence that natural sciences do.
In Psychology, you have to be skeptical of any and all final results of studies and experiments whatever they may be. This is because psychologists and other higher-ups in the field are the ones to draw the line on whether or not data reaches a significant level of proof.
Researchers themselves have so many degrees of freedom within their own experiments and studies that p-hacking and other bias is an incredibly prevalent concern. In fact, there is a massive debate in the psychology realm about whether or not a lot of mainstream and accepted psychological results were false-positives. The general acceptance of p-values is dropping because of the subjective understanding of whether or not the 95% confidence level is accurate or not.
Of course you can form your own conclusions, but psychology is not anywhere close as reliable as a natural science.
i think people get confused about it because they think "if gender is a construct, why are people still attached to it?"
it's because even though most gender roles are a construct, it's still a very huge part of our society and the way it functions.
currency is a construct, but we rely on currency because it's built on how we run things - it's the same idea with gender roles
so like, someone who is a female to male transgender person might try to do things they perceive as -male- because it's the only thing they know with regards to how that sex functions.
it would be much better if gender roles didn't exist in the first place, but i know that is idealistic.
this isn't even primary literature, it's just like how you described it except there are zero conclusions about gender perception so where did you get that interpretation
People nowadays are trying to make males and females absolutely equal in every way regarding masculinity norms and femininity norms. Basically, it's okay for men to be feminine and for women to be masculine. People who believe that openly support the breaking of gender norms in every possible aspect (i.e men expressing feelings). How come, then, people who are transgendered do everything they can to "be female" if they were male, or "be male" if they were female? If, really, society was trying to break gender norms, why must transgenders feel the need to change their labels and fit into a specific gender?
I don't know how to convey my thoughts this late lol
personally when I want to win an argument, I just post a lot of links that look like reputable sources arguing my side, but really they're links to an image of my d1ck. I'll know they didn't read it when they don't reply "hey, why did you link me an image of your d1ck"
