It's interesting & strange the way so many people think that being told of average traits for a gender equates to pressure to conform to it.
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For women, anyway. Different for men, sadly. I'm 5 ft 9. The average height for men but in the 90th centile for women so not uncommon.
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No-one gawps at me in the street or makes comments coz its known that whilst more men are this tall or taller, so are millions of women.
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Of course, the difference is that society did have set gender roles & jobs for men & women for centuries & this was moralistic.
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It was restrictive & it hasn't entirely gone away. Some social conservatives uphold the idea of 'natural roles' in a moralistic sense.
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Others just notice trends & make assumptions based on them w/out having a moral commitment to them. Better not to make such assumptions.
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Needless to say, it seems part of the fear (or whatever) of acknowledgng general diffs is the fact that humanity has demonstratd
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that it's not mature/wise enough to NOT treat them as expectations/not use them to discriminate against individuals.
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Ideology loads everything. A 'reading between the lines' and hearing the echo of their own ideology.
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