Recommendation: Men Are Not Hardwired for Infidelity
Jessica recommends…
Men Are Not Hardwired for Infidelity: Why Does Pop Culture Insist on Biological Differences Between the Sexes?
Article on gender differences
Article on gender differences
Interesting article about differences (or lack thereof) between the sexes.
Posted by xMech on June 7th, 2011 at 04:00 pm
Category: articles, recommendations 4 comments »
June 7th, 2011 at 4:36 pm |
Great recommendation, thanks. I also suggest a book called “The Myth of Mars and Venus”, though I can’t remember who it’s by, sorry. I think the publicity is the key to this issue; there is so much evidence that there is too much diversity *within* each part of the gender binary to make the division *between* remotely meaningful, but the mainstream press won’t print it, so mainstream culture never gets to see it.
And fear, yes, in the above article it is touched on, and I believe many people are desperate for any kind of certainty in life, even if it is unpleasant. They miss out on so much beauty and truth.
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June 7th, 2011 at 5:26 pm |
Great recommendation!!! Anne Fausto-Sterling has been writing about this since the 80s as well (“Myths of Gender” and “Sexing the Body”), if anyone is looking for further reading.
What’s really frustrating is, despite these thinkers, we are still stuck in very restrictive categories of sex and gender. We’ve gone from a one-sex model in the 18th and 19th century to a two sex model today and now it seems as though we’ll never see beyond our own “scientific facts” of life. What happened to change the system before, and how do we simulate that with a model that is more representative of our diversity?
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June 8th, 2011 at 2:27 am |
‘Truth Games’ http://is.gd/gAg3ZZ shows that men can be faithful and women promiscuous. We’re in 1970s London UK, the two blazing hot summers of 75 and 76, and a group of friends are getting way out of their depth in infidelity. Thought-provoking, amusing and with guaranteed naughty bits.
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June 8th, 2011 at 1:30 pm |
I’m really interested in scientific research that tries to deconstruct any notions that “men” are “hard-wired” to be a certain way, and “women” are “hard-wired” to be a different way. I just don’t think this research is helpful or all that solidly grounded. A book I’ve been meaning to get around to for a long time on this subject is “Delusions of Difference: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference,” by Cordelia Fine. Here’s a link: http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-Difference/dp/0393068382/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I17CQPMRMGA9WW&colid=ITZBPJFJSA9O.
Anyway, I think fighting presumptions about what it means to be sexed male or female are really great issues for genderqueer people, or anyone, to take up!
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