Pink Brain, Blue Brain

[joreth]

Everyone of my Regular Readers should know by now that one of my pet peeves is the perpetuation of the myth that men and women are inherently different.

Of course there are some obvious physical differences, even aside from the genitalia. But study after study after study have shown that the differences among men and the differences among women

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[octarinelouise]

Every now and then, one of my partners gets to hear me bitch about the expectations, assumptions, and general stupidities that I encounter from people reacting to the fact that I have a biologically female form. Partner (gendered pronouns are an issue) would gladly swap bodies so we could try it the other way around for a bit, as they experience weird social anomalies from the perspective of the biologically male, and find it just as irritating.

Neither of us are quite happy with the concept of 'he' or 'she'; and yet, if we could choose, much prefer the idea of dealing with the social situation of the _other_ gender than the one we have been raised with due to accident of biology. I'm not sure how much of this is because our brains and perspectives are actually better suited to the situation of the other, and how much is just that we're tired of our own gendered situation - possibly a bit of both.

So, yeah. Social reform would be awesome, and the more parents are encouraged to raise their children to see themselves and everyone else as individuals rather than halves of an imagined binary, the awesomer the future will hopefully be.