Reply #19: I played with dolls

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I once got thrown out of a restaurant for having long hair, too, when I was eight.

I still have no gender identity. I cook, I shop, I fix my own cars and wire my own house, I read chick lit and watch chick flix. My spouse, as much as we don't get along, is like that, too. She mows the lawn, she makes more money than me, she's lousy with the kids. Even our problems are the reverse of the stereotypical roles.

Gender stereotypes aren't natural, they are purely the creation of our society. I believe that aside from a few obvious physical details, there is very little real difference between genders--it's all cultural. Iwas arguing with a woman over chivalry once. I thought it was degrading, and the source of much inequality. She said maybe, but deep inside every woman there is a little girl who wants her knight to come save her. I told her that deep inside every man there is a little boy who wants his mother to do the same thing. It's the same basic psychological need, but in a woman it's a virtue, in a man it's an emotional hangup. The only difference is how culture views it, not the need itself.