It's turning out that many aspects of the traditional gender roles are reflected in brain differences between women and men. What's still not clear, is the extent to which brain development is guided by nurture instead of nature.
To my way of thinking, this makes a difference because it is ethically wrong to raise people in ways that keep them from living to their utmost potential.
I have no ethical objections to the idea of gender roles, provided that they are "loose" instead of "strict" -- that is, the simple observation that people of a particular gender are more likely to be better at certain things, shouldn't lead to the presumption that therefore only someone of a given gender should be given a particular task -- this is not a conclusion that is logically implied by the observation.
This is a personal issue for me, as I have never clearly fit into either category. Attempting to live out the "proscription" of the male gender role has been an absolute disaster for me.
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Date: 2004-04-10 05:47 am (UTC)To my way of thinking, this makes a difference because it is ethically wrong to raise people in ways that keep them from living to their utmost potential.
I have no ethical objections to the idea of gender roles, provided that they are "loose" instead of "strict" -- that is, the simple observation that people of a particular gender are more likely to be better at certain things, shouldn't lead to the presumption that therefore only someone of a given gender should be given a particular task -- this is not a conclusion that is logically implied by the observation.
This is a personal issue for me, as I have never clearly fit into either category. Attempting to live out the "proscription" of the male gender role has been an absolute disaster for me.