What is a ‘male feeling,’ ‘male thought,’ ‘male talent,’ or ‘male preference’ regarding the world and human expression, unrelated to the particular sensations of the sexed body, that no woman ever shares, given similar conditions?
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Even if there are some broad tendencies based on sex, such as the greater male propensity to commit violence that’s borne out in the crime stats of the entire world, this doesn’t dictate an inevitable palate of talent and personality at the individual level.
Men aren’t the sex of person who understands math, because not all men ... Women aren’t the sex of person who finds fulfillment in cleaning up. There are men who are gentle and loving, and women who are incapable of genuine affection, because these traits aren’t sex dependent.
And even where there are people who might strike the rest of us as stereotypically masculine or feminine, as we see them, they may be very different from the masculine or feminine stereotypes of other cultures. And also they’re probably not a walking stereotype.
Although feminism is a political practice of building solidarity among women to win our rights, it serves a somewhat individualist goal of letting each person shine according to their own merits and special interests, of not forcing them into a box.
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