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In reply to the discussion: Is There a Gene for Motherhood? [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)Men are in general taller than women right? That is a true statement.
Why then are some women taller than some men? How could that be!?!?!
Additionally you're mistaken in thinking that because some gender expectations where cultural constructs all of them must be.
Do boys really prefer blue to pink? Probably not, that's a cultural thing since it only popped up here recently and can't really be shown to have much of a history or cross-cultural acceptance.
Do boys prefer sports to playing doll? Yeah that seems likely since that has always been the case and not just here but in every culture and throughout history.
See the difference?
And when a society, such as the Kibbutz's, goes out of it's way to erase those differences and train their children to show no gender differences and they still crop up from no where that kind of suggests those aren't artificial constructs.
Are all societal expectations for boys and girls based on nature? No. Are they all based on an entirely on nurture? Again no.