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I've been toying with viewing it as a storytelling - there's some stories that have been told so many times we know them like it's religious; and there's two big stories that get told a lot, and one is the man story and the other is the woman story

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The king story is one where he wears a crown, where he tells people what to do, where people try to kill him sometimes, where he's succeeded by his children. The story is defined by invisible rules of society - everyone agrees he should wear a crown, and tell people what to do.-

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This has a lot of overlap onto personality traits - maybe the king is vain, or commanding, or confident, or entitled. But those personality traits seem maybe like things that support or are an outgrowing of his role as king; traits that enable him to fulfill the story better.

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I guess this depends on what you mean by your question, but personality traits feel like building blocks to a story; they are (usually?) not the story itself, they are a means by which the story is brought to life

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At least in this frame, an aggressive woman is taking on traits from the male story; she is *deviating* from her story, which is why we consider an aggressive woman to be doing something weird with gender. I think we're generally very tolerant of story deviations, but we-

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still frame it *as a story deviation*; the story is the background by which we understand how people act. Are they being a proper King, or a wimpy King? I don't think I understand a lot of the modern discourse around gender, I suspect a lot of it is sloppy and inconsistent.

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But also I have the sense that I still don't know exactly what your question is; I'm sort of talking trying to figure out my thoughts on it here, but I don't know exactly what the crux is.

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Physical appearance? The things people expect from them based on their physical appearance? Their ability to breed? I'm a little confused - I don't think people popularly consider gender to be equal to personality.