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@Aella_Girl
Why does the male gender role have generally less flexibility? Feminine men seem more mocked than masculine women, you can name a baby girl 'Max' but it's weird for a baby boy to be "Sarah", women being bi is basically a fun norm while 'bi guys' are stereotyped as gay. Why?
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@Aella_Girl
This is a thing where I feel like there's got to be a great evolutionary theory for this but I don't know what it is. Is it male value is more centered around strength behaviors, while women value is more centered around reproduction (which is much more stable)?
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@Aella_Girl
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@drethelin
yeah i wonder if this is just a modern thing, like pre-feminism a masculine women is really gross, and maybe it is, but I think my model is that male flexibility is still comparatively less than female flexibility across cultures today.
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@Aella_Girl
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yea but like, feminineness was explicitly praised, 'ladylikeness,' all this shit. today there's a pushback against being hyper-feminine; in old texts n shit you get 'the soft nubile skin of her motherly womb' being all the rage
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