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MadrasT

(7,237 posts)
5. Interesting thing with the Kibbutz.
Fri Oct 5, 2012, 11:41 AM
Oct 2012

I will check that out. Thanks.

These kinds of things interest me because I am a woman who has zero interest in children, nurturing, community, clothes, decorating, blah blah blah... I basically have almost no stereotypical "feminine" traits and instead have lots of stereotypical "masculine" traits (assertive, logical, low levels of empathy-and-emotion, highly independent, huge drive to succeed and achieve, mechanically inclined, etc.)

Since I am an "outlier" I am always curious about how I got to be this way, and how other people got to be the way they are.

My parents raised me in a very gender-neutral way, and I don't even know for myself how much was nature and how much was nurture.

I wasn't allowed to have dolls and I wasn't dressed up as a girl... but I didn't really have much of an urge to want to play with dolls or wear frilly girl clothes, either. They raised me gender neutral, I feel gender neutral. But which came first?

Anyway, enough rambling...

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Comment 3 summed up my reaction. MadrasT Oct 2012 #1
I would say it`s most likely a combination of innate qand learned. opiate69 Oct 2012 #2
Some humans tried this experiment quite deliberately 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #3
Interesting thing with the Kibbutz. MadrasT Oct 2012 #5
Nature seems to like the bell-curve 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #6
"But which came first?" lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #8
A distinction without a difference. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2012 #7
I personally do think there are a lot of gender-type behaviors that are innate. Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #10
" . . . unlike today" 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #12
It was just a goofy fucking thing to say. Warren DeMontague Oct 2012 #13
Don't know much biology... rrneck Oct 2012 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author eek MD Oct 2012 #9
Every good study has outliers . . . 4th law of robotics Oct 2012 #11
I have my own anecdote... TreasonousBastard Oct 2012 #14
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