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<blockquote data-quote="psychophipps" data-source="post: 7445543" data-attributes="member: 8208"><p>I said it before and I will say it again. Gender is between your ears and sex is between your legs. If you hear your entire life that "Boys/Girls can't/don't do those things" and you follow that social pressure then you are being molded by social constructs, not ability. If you choose the way you look or carry yourself to be "normal" then you are matching a societal construct entirely separated from ability. Yes, most folks choose to follow the herd, and that fine for them, but to say gender is based upon physical appearance and ability?</p><p></p><p>I think your assumptions are pretty misguided. As an example, I'm 6'2" and 250lbs. There are several ladies in my CrossFit box that can smoke me any day of the week in terms of reps, but I can out lift them in raw weight just because I'm a physical monster. Their thrust to weight ratio blows me out of the water and they run past my rhino trundling like gazelles when we have runs in our workouts. In fact, in *every single* measurable workout metric they outperform me except in raw maximum liftable weight.</p><p>That said, as long as your social system or culture isn't based on raw brute violence (read: ability to kill others, or make other do that killing for us, to get what we want) like the skeleton that current human societies have been built upon then the assumption that these are "man things" and those are "woman things" get tossed pretty quickly. Removing obvious dimorphic differences and other "Low Magic" human assumptions from the mix and you can quite easily see the human mainstream gender distinctions as based far more on societal pressures than assumed physical attributes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychophipps, post: 7445543, member: 8208"] I said it before and I will say it again. Gender is between your ears and sex is between your legs. If you hear your entire life that "Boys/Girls can't/don't do those things" and you follow that social pressure then you are being molded by social constructs, not ability. If you choose the way you look or carry yourself to be "normal" then you are matching a societal construct entirely separated from ability. Yes, most folks choose to follow the herd, and that fine for them, but to say gender is based upon physical appearance and ability? I think your assumptions are pretty misguided. As an example, I'm 6'2" and 250lbs. There are several ladies in my CrossFit box that can smoke me any day of the week in terms of reps, but I can out lift them in raw weight just because I'm a physical monster. Their thrust to weight ratio blows me out of the water and they run past my rhino trundling like gazelles when we have runs in our workouts. In fact, in *every single* measurable workout metric they outperform me except in raw maximum liftable weight. That said, as long as your social system or culture isn't based on raw brute violence (read: ability to kill others, or make other do that killing for us, to get what we want) like the skeleton that current human societies have been built upon then the assumption that these are "man things" and those are "woman things" get tossed pretty quickly. Removing obvious dimorphic differences and other "Low Magic" human assumptions from the mix and you can quite easily see the human mainstream gender distinctions as based far more on societal pressures than assumed physical attributes. [/QUOTE]
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