This is categorically wrong according to Indian philosophy. Culture is identified as feminine (Prakrti). Not only that, language as a whole is identified with the feminine principle. Activity & power (Shakti) are also feminine. Nature is feminine, but culture is part of it.https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/1002584728770400256 …
There is a bimodal distribution of a subset of human traits that correlates with testosterone/estrogen/progesterone. It does not makes sense to pretend that the archetype that you get by extrapolating that distribution applies to things that are not animals.
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The hormones themselves have evolved for greater success in the quite different evolutionary strategies of male and female. But I see where you are coming from. You see intelligence and cognition as a more abstract principle than life (atleast that with sexual differentiation).
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I do not disagree with you there. I do not agree either. I am still not sure either way, if life or cognition is more fundamental. Anyways, I am talking about culture and language here. And that's just human culture. I consider fair to project these ideas over gender.
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