Masculinity and Femininity, take 2

[mostlyfoo]

Okay so this is one thing thats been discussed on and off, how is it that I define masculine and feminine? I had a crack at it in January and while I pretty much stand by that definition it was pretty stand offish in a way.

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[bodybag_pilgrim]

Hmm. I somewhat flippantly posited, a while ago, that gender is analogous to light - both a wave and a particle, or to put it another way, both personal and societal. This post seems to point that up somewhat; gender is internal, but manifests in the cues and responses of people and those around them.

I suspect we need to define some terms specifically to make that something that can be neatly and accurately encapsulated in a sentence.

[mostlyfoo]

I actually quite like that as a comparison it must be said :)

I was pondering this morning how it could perhaps be described as a chaotic emergent system, from a set of axioms and small starting conditions it arises to form a complicated system embedded and transmitted by both culture and biology, but also small changes at crucial points (either events in someones life or biology) can lead to the system developing in wildly different ways than could be predicted.

Stealing ideas from other fields to cross apply is always good to think about things in different ways :)