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Originally Posted by DanaC
It is an immensely complex subject once you start delving into it, and quite aside from modern understandings of hormones and brain chemistry, history and anthropology both show gender to be a far more fluid and contextual affair than you might think.
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Yes. Our current society, and any historic society after moving on from our hunter-gatherer stage, is a much different environment than the one we evolved into. If we want to determine any "true" (true probably should be taken with a huge grain of salt) biological gender roles, we would need to look at what it meant to be a man or woman in a prehistoric hunter-gatherer society.
I'm guessing this means that both manhood and womanhood meant having strong traits that led to the survival of the clan, but just in different ways. Also, I'm going to guess that prehistoric hunter-gatherer gender roles are not the stereotypical ones we think of today.