We’ve already had, today, news that cleaning the house is female behaviour. The claim is that it’s socialised in.
OK.
We’ve now a rising population of those who are not in their genetically programmed gender.
OK
But this means that we’ve a new set of experimental subjects with which we might be able to tease out more about such gender/sex differences.
We’ve now those where gender and genes match, those where they don’t. So, if we observe those for gendered behaviour we might gain insight into where it is gender – the social construct – that matters and where genes.
Something obvious like wearing a dress, well, we can’t use that, too obvious. But something more hidden. Like knowing the difference between taupe and magenta.
Does the transman leave their socks on the floor? The transwoman the washing up the moment there’s both a knife and a plate?
So, who do we apply to for the grants?
Working to support the family – hunting – is male behaviour – socialised in?
Meanwhile in other species is female behaviour nest building, keeping nest or den clean socialised in?
Don’t people not watch Nature documentaries or go to school anymore or know anything about anything?
Yes, and would be interesting to see if the percent of blokes with tits who code for a living is higher than the per cent of birds with tits.
“Like knowing the difference between taupe and magenta.”
Or knowing how to check the oil level or how to parallel park? 😉
We’ve had decades of insistance that there’s no difference between men’s and women’s brains. Now there’s this creeping insistance that trannies’ brains match their desired gender.
Are we still at war with Eastasia?
Hallowed: the more interesting statistic would be the percent of blokes with tits who code for a hobby regardless of whether anybody pays them.
All the biologically female coders I know, it’s a job, it’s dropped at the end of the work day. Almost all of them aspire to “move on” to “better things” like management or the like. (WTH? What’s “better” than *being* *paid* to write code?????)
The two female presenting trans coders I know will wake up at 3am to scribble down some code, will forget they’ve got the tea cooking to wrangle an algorithm into a working state, will discuss over a pint at a show* the intracacies of esoteric hardware systems, would, if they didn’t need to eat, do a coding job for nothing other than the sheer enjoyment of creation.
*I’ve described to a friend the “computer shows” I go to as the equivalent of the radio rallies that he goes to. He instantly understood.
Studying this would be confounded if you treat “trans” people as one group.
There are at least three:
1. Boys who start out extremely effeminate from childhood. They used to become homosexuals as adults.
2. Men who are generally bright but not terribly caring (often called sociopathic). In later life some feel they are not getting enough attention (e.g. Jenner), so think of this as a way to do so.
3. Girls who feel that becoming a woman in this society is terrifying (with some justice, if they grow up with the wrong influences) and decide to become a man to avoid this.
“News that cleaning the house is female behaviour”
So do I (as a single male living alone), have to identify as female on the rare occasions when I can be arsed to push the Dyson round the house? And what about cleaning the dishes?
(Spoiler ahead!) Us older blokes will actually know the difference, which is of course that Spectrum had a Captain Magenta but no Captain Taupe. So we also know one of those colours even if we don’t buy colour cartridges. I’ve no clue re Taupe, though I do know it is a colour name that I’ve seen.
Useful pathfinder for this experiment might be the xkcd color survey of 2020, results here-
https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
“I weep for my gender.”
Well worth a read 🙂
Doh 2010…
We’re already fairly comfortable with the idea that gays are stereotypically female: good at interior design & fashion; not good at replacing a spark plug. Lesbians are even more stereotypically male: they get into fights and fix their own cars.
The only time when they revert to the stereotypes of their own sex is when they actually have sex: gays shag like unrestrained men (hence monkeypox); lesbians hardly sleep together at all (the infamous “lesbian bed death”).
Most of the female Business Analysts I know started as developers but found they preferred the business side/personal interaction so switched jobs.
In interesting metric might be the rate at which male v female quit coding and move to other IT jobs
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