Vinnie Tesla on religion and gender

[kitchen_kink]

I really liked Vinnie's post this week on how gendered behaviors are much more likely to be the result of cultural conditioning than they are about biological factors, using Occam's razor and a roundabout but trenchant comparison to religion.

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Comments

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Oddly appropos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/fashion/new-challenge-for-parents-childrens-gender-roles.html?pagewanted=all

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Ehh, I've known that for years :-) Not running down the post; it is well written. It's just that looking at the differences between various human cultures shows how much gender roles are mostly cultural. I mean, food preparation alone is looked at differently in so many places I can't even count, as are standards of attraction, acceptable forms of sex, how to build a home and more.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

I just really liked how clear and obvious and short this post was. It really made me look at the whole thing and go, "Yeah. That's it. Well duh."

I love it when someone does that, mainly because I tend to be so wishy-washy and verbose. :)