• cynar@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The 2 often feed off each other too. E.g. men are slightly stronger than women, on average. Men are then expected to take on the strong protector role, while women are expected to act weak and subservient. This amplifies the original slight difference massively, reinforcing the social stereotype.

    Women seem to have a preference for cooperation, with their ranking within the group mattering most. Men seem to err towards intergroup competition, where your teams ranking matters most. These necessitate different types of social skills, which feeds the stereotype, which feeds the original difference.

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      3 months ago

      Men being slightly stronger on average than women has a LOT to do with culture.

      When I was a kid, girls weren’t even allowed to do the same calisthenics in school. There was severe social opprobrium for women doing strength training, learning martial arts, etc.

      This is one of the things about the patriarchy, the things it enforces are seen as natural. Women are put in clothes that limit their mobility, beauty standards demand frailness, etc.

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        3 months ago

        Imagine believing this in 2026. There’s a reason most sports are separated by gender and it certainly isn’t “culture”.

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              3 months ago

              If they were a law of nature, society wouldn’t have to punish people who “do sports and/or gender wrong”

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                    3 months ago

                    That animals have genders I don’t think is something that can be denied.

                    Many animals (for example smarter birds, such as crows and magpies) perform “for-fun physical activities” such as sliding and flipping, often in group. According to most dictionaries, that counts as a sport.