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> the complexities of womanhood, its many forms and expressions. > help [boys] navigate toward a full expression of their gender > outdated model of masculini
by detcader 9y ago
> the complexities of womanhood, its many forms and expressions.
> help [boys] navigate toward a full expression of their gender
> outdated model of masculinity
What kind of framing of the problem is this? There is no such salvageable thing as any objective "womanhood" or "the male gender" or "masculinity". We have biological sex and we have a power dynamic of which roles and socialized behaviors are the main properties. Take away men's social power structure of over women, and "womanhood" "gender" "masculinity" refer to nothing, or very clinical medical things.
- alacombe 9y agoArgument could by made as to whether or not power dynamic is directly linked to biological sex (in general) at the biological level.
- detcader 9y agoThen the questions obviously become "how do we prove that?" and then "how do we work against the crippling effects that condition obviously has on civilization?" Who has gotten past the first within the scientific community? Until they appear, I'll assume the less extraordinary claim that gendered behaviors are socialized