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xssve -> RE: Male vs. Female Dominance (My 1st thread) (6/1/2011 6:59:11 AM)
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You know the whole wage issue was investigated years ago, and it turned out women typically fail to demand higher wages, again, possibly because they simply don't tend to calculate status the same way men do - part of that may be cultural, part of it may be simply that they don't equate money with status to the same extent men do, i.e., they need enough to take care of their basic needs, and are leery about pushing it past that.
Culturally, it wasn't all that long ago, it was illegal for women to wear pants.
In this culture, at it's current juncture, money has pretty much replaced everything else as a measure of status, although money itself simply represents resources, a measure of how many children one can support, i.e., it's a fertility symbol.
As a pure abstraction, resource accumulation, divorced from it's biological utility in optimizing K strategies, is tantamount to an irrational neurosis, like the antlers of the Irish Elk, an evolutionary dead end - but try telling anybody that, lol.
Civilization has evolved around gender roles, symbolically speaking although in praxis, there have always been the same profusion of strategies you see now - i.e., there have always been homosexuals, intersexed individuals, whether genitally or biochemically, straight up gender bending, etc., it's there all throughout history, you just have to look harder in some ages, but it's not the official narrative, which is all about binary gender roles to the extent that many people define that as culture, "society", etc..
Most indigenous cultures make no big deal out of it at all, it does have a biological basis, a bias, i.e., the average person tends to identify with their biological gender without really thinking much about it, but culture and symbolism take off where biology ends, politics, in short.
The real differences are profound, but often much subtler, having to do again, largely with reproductive roles, women bear the bulk of reproductive costs, etc., including physical vulnerability, as well as the simple fact that they are the ones that deliver the new life, they are responsible for the care and feeding, etc. - men don't lactate - those things are harder to get around biologically, they aren't abstractions, they're empirical realities, and they result in a certain divergence of motivations between men and women, males and females - since most of these things are common to mammals in general - but we have managed to find more ways of getting around them, and to a greater extent in our advanced technological society than at any other point in human history.
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