Research published yesterday,showing that brains don’t come in male and female forms, fits with what we know about gendered behaviourIt’s the first thing we want to know when a newborn arrives. We state it on every form we fill out. We ticket it with pronouns, and names,clothing, and hairstyle. It’s the first thing we register about a person.
Sex categories – whether you possess female or male genitals – are fundamental for reproduction. They are also the principal way we carve up the social world. No surprise then that scientists and the general public alike often assume that sex categories are no less fundamental to how we think, and feel,and behave, taking it for granted that there are female and male natures subserved by a “female brain” and a male brain”, or respectively. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com