Mr. Tea

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Hey guys, in a stunning and daring synthesis, I've just solved the entire problem in one fell swoop. What if gender is performative and at the same time to at least some extent essential?

Male monkeys, like boys, showed consistent and strong preferences for wheeled toys, while female monkeys, like girls, showed greater variability in preferences. Thus, the magnitude of preference for wheeled over plush toys differed significantly between males and females. The similarities to human findings demonstrate that such preferences can develop without explicit gendered socialization. We offer the hypothesis that toy preferences reflect hormonally influenced behavioral and cognitive biases which are sculpted by social processes into the sex differences seen in monkeys and humans.

 

?!..!?

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Hey guys, in a stunning and daring synthesis, I've just solved the entire problem in one fell swoop. What if gender is performative and at the same time to at least some extent essential?



I don't see how your scientific article provides any evidence for your claim that gender is essential. Also Darwin rather conclusively refuted essentialism, so pretty much no scientists today are essentialists.
 

Mr. Tea

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I don't see how your scientific article provides any evidence for your claim that gender is essential. Also Darwin rather conclusively refuted essentialism, so pretty much no scientists today are essentialists.
Well what are you use that word to mean?

Also, have you even slept?
 

?!..!?

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Well what are you use that word to mean?

Also, have you even slept?
Again, a gendered quality is essential if and only if all members of the relevant gender must share it.

Also, I was literally about to go to sleep before your bum ass had to post and keep me up lol
 

Mr. Tea

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Again, a gendered quality is essential if and only if all members of the relevant gender must share it.

Also, I was literally about to go to sleep before your bum ass had to post and keep me up lol

Well you'll notice I did say 'to some extent.' A strong correlation between two variables can still tell us something important about objective reality even if there is not a perfect one-to-one relationship.

And nobody is forcing you to continue to reply to this thread!
 

0bleak

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Because I've never heard of a single example of a person's actions defining them as a member of a race. A black clique might have a white friend who acts black, but they still identify him as white.

I have a white cousin that grew up in a mixed race area, and has consistently, since a very young age "acted black" where I have seen, at least a couple of times, black people refer to him as black or telling him he's black (and his physical body is very much not black - white skin, blonde hair) like it's meant totally genuinely like they accept him as black.
 
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