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> Next you'll tell me people aren't born knowing what gender they are, but rather it's "socialized" into them. That just depends on what you mean by gender. Th
by pyre 12y ago
> Next you'll tell me people aren't born knowing what gender they are, but rather it's "socialized" into them.
That just depends on what you mean by gender. There are many things around gender that are social constructs. For example, pink being a "feminine" colour. Do you believe that DNA encodes females to prefer pink[1]?
[1] http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297159948/girls-are-taught-to-think-pink-but-that-wasnt-always-so http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297159948/girls-are-taught-to-...
- bjterry 12y agoCompletely aside from the current politically charged discussion, I recently read an interesting paper by Psychologist Marcio Del Giudice which claims that "pink for boys, blue for girls" is a scientific urban legend. He uses the Google Ngram Viewer of historical books and finds that the relevant terms for that theory never appear in the corpus, while the relation that is currently the societal norm appears back into the late 1800s (the beginning of the corpus).[1] Of course, the article you reference doesn't claim that there was a reversal as many others do, but that the colors were simply not as gendered in the past, which seems almost certainly true. 1: http://bsb-lab.org/site/wp-content/uploads/DelGiudice_2012_reversal_pink-blue_asb.pdf http://bsb-lab.org/site/wp-content/uploads/DelGiudice_2012_r...