I think, without quite consciously realizing it, I've grown to view cultural norms/taboos as predominantly created and enforced by women. I'm not exactly sure why I feel this.
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Probably because it's true. Lots of data on this actually, just doesn't get talked about
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Maybe because women do the bulk of child care and teaching? They are in a good position to transmit norms, not sure about creating them though.
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Depends on the taboo, I suppose. Seems to me that what are today considered to be righteous efforts to dispel constraining norms are just new norms in themselves, and in some cases just the same norms turned on themselves. But yes, mostly female-driven.
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women put a lot more thought into other people - it makes sense they develop and distribute norms/taboos
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Read the anthropologist Sherry Ortner on women and nature/culture distinction.
