#gender socialization

[shamebats]

[lanaflowerz]

[guiltguilding]

OP disabled reblogs on the post soon after my reblog pointing out that women are statistically much better than men at separating reality from fiction but not without hitting me with this banger of a reply (second screenshot)

Firstly the ostensibly progressive 'queer' crowd using the word 'weird' as an insult is the purest form of satire, absolute gold

As for the actual point in question...Nowhere did I say 'inherently capable' or 'biologically capable', and if op had asked me where that difference in capabilities comes from my answer would be SOCIALIZATION (as would be any radfem's answer, as op would know if they actually had a look at what radfems believe instead of parroting the nonsense about biological essentialism)

It is curious, however, how often the 'queer' crowd takes any statistical observations about the differences between male and female behavior to be statements of biology (it's almost like, in spite of their professed leftist progressiveness, they haven't actually engaged with any classical left-wing analysis that deals with social structures and class)

And then the next gold nugget of satire, of course — reducing female biology to the 'c*nt' (something that the progressive crowd keeps accusing radfems of doing)

If the superior female capacity for separating fiction from reality were actually biological (which it isn't), it would be an emergent function of her DNA* and thus be stored in pretty much every cell of her body

*footnote for the DNA nerds out there: I'm not implying that DNA could have a separate 'critical thinking' gene or set thereof, but rather that a very large set of genes coding for much simpler things, some possibly completely unrelated to the process of cognition, would end up in symbiosis creating such a capacity. But this is a purely theoretical exercise since, as mentioned previously, the (most significant part of) this capacity comes from socialization**

**footnote for my inner stickler: just like with most things in anthropology, interpersonal differences in the skill of separating fiction from reality are likely mediated by biology as well as socialization, but on statistically significant scales the aspect of socialization seems to come forth as dominating. And in the patriarchy it would be futile to try to conduct studies on whether this difference might have a statistically significant biological component since socialization starts even before a child is born, is ubiquitous and there's no way to filter it out post factum)

[wombwarriors]

"...I too risk offending my sisters by arguing that what we know to be a woman depends on what we know to be a man. From the second a girl is born, she is called to identify and relate her life through male psychology. She gets her name from a male lineage; she is told fairy tales in which men are the victors and women those who make sacrifices; she receives a male-centered education; she is taught to worship male gods; she lives in a society governed by men; she absorbs male-favoring views of power, knowledge, beauty, sexuality, and so on."

Minna Salami, in "Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone" (2020).

[biac-091299]

A woman said it before me, but I do believe women are better at seperating fiction from reality than men are, and can actually. I ain't know why, but it literally continously proves itself to be true. I see it all the damn time, even with myself. Maybe it's cause men's fantasies are already encouraged and endorsed by reality (even the ones man perceives as defiant rely on patriarchal societies principles), while women's are starkly different and we are constantly reminded of that? We know we have actual fantasies, while men just fantasize about adjacent realities?

[vinterfeminism]

im not sure if this is a bad thought process to have, but i think male and female socialization does sorta exist not as a privilege oppression divide but as any other kind of abusive conditioning you get as a child. having your gender identity aggressively policed under threat of beatings is as harmful as being taught to make yourself small.

I think male/female socialization is terf rhetoric because of sex being the main factor, but I do use the terms socialized as a boy/girl since that makes it clear that gender is what is being referred to and because gender has no relation to human bodies it shows that it isn't something that will always be present and can be changed. I get where you are coming from though, and I do thing this socialization by society and by parents or guardians is abusive.

[boycreaturefeature]

On one hand i know that socializing terms aren’t good and i know that every transgender person has a different story and yes, i know that oftentimes transgender people are often not even perceived as what they were born as and are instead perceived as a gender anomaly but i really do wish that there was a way to talk about “Hey, being perceived as something treated as such regardless of what that was actually are does affect you in the future” that was succinct

[heterorealism]