I've always wanted to write about the degree to which Christian theology on gender differences aligns with evolutionary psychology on it.
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Because Christian ideas of it was based on observation but given a theological explanation - different kinds of sins.
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Women's greater emotional expression & tendency to be moved to sympathy with an outsider appears a lot as a potential for falling into sin.
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Also, a liking for pretty things, a tendency to talk more & to express anger verbally & at length. XD
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Men's greater tendency to express anger physically & to argue the fine details of things that weren't to be questioned also a danger.
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Women were seen as in danger of getting distracted from religious righteousness by things of the world & needing to be reigned in.
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We can evaluate this many different ways of course. One is that the reality for most adult women through most of history was baby production
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...have a baby, breast feed, repeat. Of course that impacts on what is expected and thought of those women...
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...much of their adult life spent clapping when a small person poops. Yet more with baby brain...
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Although women also worked. Men and women mostly had little intellectual stimulation but did different jobs in agriculture.
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Not a great deal of time for playing with baby. And if you were wealthy, usually paid someone else to do it.
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