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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What this comment shows is a commitment to a view called Gender essentialism- which argues that men are one way organically  (I.e. decisive, rational) and women are another way ( I.e. docile, peace loving, more compromising). This is a really outdated view that was used in the 1950s and 1960s to argue that women could never be army generals or president, etc.  The main issue with this view is that it conflates all women together ( all women are this way) and it kind of awards all the good and fun qualities to men and essentially describes female qualities as second clas or those belonging to broken men ( ie men are rational and women are emotional).

It limits and hurts everyone to simplify this world in such a way that women are assumed not to be good at math and science, business leadership etc. It also hurts men by saying that they are not relational and good at social work etc.

It doesn’t make anyone a joyless harridan to point out how limiting this is. And it’s asinine to say that women should embrace their “femininity” and not pursue occupations like medicine. Get back on your dinosaur and go back to your cave.[/quote]

It's called Yin and Yang and it exists in nature in just about any species. [b]This energy and traits are not something humans invented through socialization[/b]. Femininity is beautiful and essential to life, and it has nothing to do with being subservient, weak or powerless.[/quote]

Uh, yes they are. Male and female (and nonbinary) animals act differently in all species. [/quote]

DP. What species has females that act as if they have less autonomy than the males -- other than how you want human women to act?[/quote]

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