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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Do we, as a society, glorify what is average or do we like to think of ourselves as different, exceptional, unique? I think its the latter.
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I am constantly getting clickbait on Facebook that says 'Only 10% of people can see this illusion, get all these questions right.'
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I think this speaks to the attractiveness of seeing oneself as part of an elite. Not a total outlier but not typical, common, average either
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I wish we could see cognitive & psychological gender differences in the same way as we see height differences. Unexceptional. Not loaded.
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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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