is there any biological basis to support gender behaviours?

Question

Or are gender roles just social constructs invented to justify behaviour?
For instance, men always argue that they are programmed to seek beauty in a mate to ensure the continuity of their genes. That's why they focus on beautiful women and treat them better than average or plain women - that's why monogamy is (allegedly) so difficult.

Have their been any definitive studies that prove it is really social conditioning and ego, not biology, that drives this behaviour?

The same with the women are nurturers and should stay home and men are hunter/gatherers and should work outside the home to be providers - is it all just bias based around excluding women from the chance to be economically independent from men?

What is jonMcn49 upset about? I wanted to know whether some roles are the result of biological differences between men and women or whether they are socially constructed and therefore, amenable to change?? That's all.

And no guy upset me today.

I wish people who don't undertsnad the questions posed would refrain from answering them!

Answer 1

Taken to the extreme, it's delusional feminist theory. Humans are survivors. We do what it takes to make it. Most differences are socially constructed based on biological differences, but are nowhere near complete social construction. Men worked in the past while women stayed at home, because of the physical labor required outside the home. The women have only worked outside the home, as jobs have become less physically demanding starting with the Industrial Revolution.
Also, it's worth noting, that it doesn't require 3-4 hours to cook meals anymore, doesn't require a few hours to wash clothes by hand anymore, and ... We are survivors. Most of feminist theory(not the original fight for equality, but written theory) is anti-male writings to try to re-write history. My great-grandmother was a boss way back(I'm 29).

Edit: I suppose someone is saying that I need to retake history classes. Apparently(according to them), men worked in the kitchen and house, and women worked in the mines, saw mills, and so on. Hilarious. Were feminists fighting to work in the home, or something? haha
Also, the argument is that women didn't work in the Industrial revolution because the work was "difficult and dangerous", but women weren't strangers to difficult and dangerous work. Contradictory.

Answer 2

there have been several studies made concerning gender, traits, personality, character, and origins. Perhaps the more famous doctors involver are John Money, Richard Docter, Robert Stoller.

However, much of what a person does ar acts like, is molded from environment and nurterers (mom, dad, one mom, one dad, foster care, peers), rather than from genetics.

Contrary to what others have stated, men have and manufacture both estrogen and testosterone (a derivative of Estrogen), and vice versa for females. Both hormones play key roles in both sexes throughout their life.

Another curiosity is that human babies all start out in the womb as females, and when hormone receptors are developed enough, male develop from androgen inputs from the mother. If you want to take it a step further, it's a woman that has a normal brain, and the male that has tweaks and alterations in thinking. Women tend to live longer than males.

All gender variations have roots in the womb, and involuntary actions and responses to chemicals, nutrition, and health while in the womb and during key development stages at various intervals.

Sexual preferences all stem from these variants and influences, and are not, contray to popular opinion, an individual choice. Coming into view along that line is the role that pollutants plays in altering life and brain abilities, such as leach compounds from plastics, electromagnetic and microwaves, contaminated food or unsteady feeding habits, heavy metals, and more chemicals that disrupt the human organism and growth and development process.

Also of interest is that many chemicals and substances in modern day use, counteract testosterone by exerting estrogenic-like influences on the human body; many substances which are not estrogens at all, but whose chemical chains mimic actual estrogens (pesticides being one such disruptor). A result of this is the overall infertility of males in the modern world, as well as sexual function problems.

as for stamina and longevity, the female portion of the human species has, by far, the greater staying power, and their endurance places them in a class that will outlast the free and hard burn of the male. Testosterone is what cause males to fall short, as that ingredient makes males metabolism and heart work harder, makes them temperate and meaner, more likely to fight a hard fight, the arteries to plug up, and that agitation shortens their lives. Current statistics state that the female species will outlive the male by an average of 8 1/2 years or so.

If you start reading some of the books published by the renowned authors/doctors listed above, one things leads to another subject, and pretty soon, you will find out things about yourself and others that never occurred to you until now.

Answer 3

Oh please! keep your trash for the crazies. faith isn't a technological know-how. it quite is a series of faiths and ideology. Key word: theory. no longer fact. Any "info" that stem from faith are biased, and as a result would properly be discredited. additionally, observe that your god did no longer write the bible. human beings did. human beings that lived in an exceptionally conservative era the place decapitation grow to be a elementary punishment for even the main minor offenses. you nevertheless have faith each and every little thing it quite is in that e book is the word of your god? i'm a lesbian. i grow to be born a lesbian. I used to desire away my homosexuality and that i needed to die I felt so depressed. Then i found out that i can't help who i'm involved in anymore than i will exchange my eye shade. I even have embraced the fact that i'm gay. and that i does not commerce my sexuality for something. i admire women human beings. And having love in my lifestyles is ideal, no longer incorrect. opposite on your bigots theory, being gay isn't regarding the act of intercourse. it quite is approximately love. And intercourse is in basic terms a potential of expressing that love. The powers that be made me this manner and that i'm happy with who i'm. i do no longer want your "help." Your god is love, supposedly? i'm specific he isn't too happy approximately your judgmental, hate crammed habit. If acceptance and love are hallmarks of the Christian faith; it form of feels to all human beings solid human beings right here, which you do no longer show any of those admirable features. you're a shame on your guy or woman faith.

Answer 4

Beauty is a cultural thing. Africans like bigger women most of the time, some other cultures like bigger women also because this is a sign of wealth, and it turns them on.

Men look for fertility...curves and big breasts to carry milk.

Both men and women pay attention to jokes as a sign of attraction, this, I theorize, is a predictor of the balance of the mind, like being a female with a more masculine mind and a feminine guy. This is because on might lack one of those traits and will want those genes.

So curves, boobs, and a personality that is compatible and offsets his traits.

Answer 5

The idea of having women being nurturers and staying home is a luxury largely reserved for wealthier families. Poor women have always worked. They have to, otherwise their children don't have anything to eat. Of course, it should also be pointed out that in rich families, the women don't take care of their families. Instead, they have an entire staff to do it for them. In the past, they even had wet nurses breastfeed their babies.

Answer 6

"Gender" in social constructionist theory refers to behaviors, attitudes, likes and dislikes, etc that a person is believed to have because of their sex. Many of your answerers addressed gender as sex which is not relevant to social constructionist theories. Also, you mention the idea that men were hunter/gatherers which is incorrect. In hunter-gatherer societies, generally men hunt and women gather. This is also relevant to the other answerers who mention "historical" basis for femininity as traits of women in the home. Much of the anti-social constructionist argument is based on constructions of history that aren't accurate. The theory of the social construction of gender is about evaluating women and femininity and men and masculinity across cultures and across history without assuming similarity with our own ideas. As I say time and time again, these theories do not say men and women are identical and only culture makes them different. I would say there is a biological basis for certain aspects of social gender which culture augments or downplays selectively. I'm not sure what sort of study you'd want on this. I'd suggest reading Butler, Bornstein, Feinberg, and Fausto-Sterling but most anthropology of gender research is relevant as well. You might also search for information on the berdache (especially Will Roscoe's research), fa'afafine, and bissu.

Answer 7

Your question is almost too convoluted to answer and begs the question/ affirms the consequent too many times to count.
It is nature via nurture, young lady and " social constructionism " is just incoherent.

Also, you confuse two levels of causation and assignment of blame. Just because something is natural ( and you really screwed that up with " straw men " ), does not mean it is right.

No one has the right to tell anyone else how to live their life, but we have millions of years of evolutionary history ( and the empirical support thereof ) and people are not feminist " theoretical " constructs and they wish to live their live as they wish to, not as you wish them to.

Yes, there is a strong biological influence on sexual behavior, despite some radical feminist nonsense to the contrary. ( that means the usual hemming and hawing, plus the equivocation that accompanies answers to this question )

Maverickk, your relativistic tripe is too vapid to even be wrong. Gender is that which is " constructed " and constructed by relativists without a bit of scientific education; you, that is.

Why am I upset little girl? It is because in this day and age the asking of this question evidences scientific ignorance beyond my ability to bare it!! Do you not take any science classes, or are you given over to that relativistic crap Maveric espouses? Whatever, Come to WGS and pull what remaining hairs you have out of your head with the frustration at American ideological ignorance back with on more than flacid assertion.

Answer 8

for the most part, i think they are social constructs although certainly our biology counts for what we do, too.

i tend to get offended more often than not by the evolutionary biology studies. i think they just look for rationale for their beliefs.

And someone here needs to retake history class - re the industrial revolution (when most of our occupational standards/laws were formed - b/c the conditions were so difficult, demanding and dangerous) and women not doing physical work - when women work on farms, they tend to do difficult work. women have not been strangers to difficult or dangerous work - it's just overlooked.

Answer 9

Yes there definitely is a difference. Men have terstezone and women have estrogen. That results in women loving babies and men being macho. This is embedded in us. so viva the differences, and any body that does not appreciate the re all difference, does no appreciate the ability of women to be different, and thus as stated the superior sex of the human species.

Answer 10

Once you start injecting a woman with Testosterone, her breasts go away, her voice deepens, and she will become aggressive. Inject a man with Estrogen, and the reverse occurs.

NATURES model has been around for roughly 100,000 years...there is a REASON why men are talller, have more upper body strength, talk less, and are better in 3-d reasoning.

Woman are better in men in MANY area's. We both needs to work our respective sides of the fence. Equality is a concept, not a reality, regardless of what law is written etc.