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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7602240" data-attributes="member: 6779196">The bolded statement is either a misunderstanding of Sandra Bem’s cognitive theory of gender schema, an anti-left bias or both. Gender theory is not a redefinition of anything, it is a theory explaining how sex-linked characteristics are maintained and transmitted within a culture. To be fair, I don’t think most people on the left really understand this theory either, and some do misuse its terms in support of their political views. But if the right and the left are speaking different languages, the language the left uses is the one that’s supported by scientific study. As famous right winger Ben Shapiro is so fond of saying, facts don’t care about your feelings, so the language I will use is the one supported by facts, not the one that is politically correct in right wing circles.Males being generally larger and stronger is a sex characteristic. Nurturing behavior in females is a sex-related behavioral trait, which is maintained and propogated through cultural schema. There is nothing about having a penis that prevents a male from nurturing young, and nothing about having a vagina that necessitates it. Nonetheless, it is a feminine trait, because it is part of the cultural schema that defines femaleneness in human society. “Cave man society” absolutely had a culture, and while it may not have had laws as such, it absolutely had traditions and taboos. You cannot have a functioning social group without social norms and expectations. And within any social group there will be social norms and expectations surrounding sex-related behavior.Social behavior is part of our biology as well. Certainly large societies have more complex social structures, whose expectations may deviate further from what we observe in smaller, more “naturalistic” social groups. But the idea that culture is “made up” and not derived from biology is nonsense. All psychological phenomena are ultimately physiological in nature, and that includes social behavior.Ok, but even under that definition of gender, the statement, "No animal that reproduces sexually has more than two genders" is inaccurate. If you’re defining gender as role in sexual reproduction, then you must acknowledge that there are many species with more than two such roles. Eusocial animals such as bees and naked mole rats have fertile queens, infertile workers, and fertile drones. Two sexes, three genders. Animals with complex mating behaviors like many birds have dominant males who attract mates through performances and non-dominant males who impersonate females and mate with the dominant male and his females. Some species of amphibians have makes, dominant females who can can metamorphosize into males when no males are present in their social group, and non-dominant females who cannot. Again, facts don’t care about your feelings, and the fact is, sex and gender are just plain more complicated than the PC right wants to believe.</blockquote>

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