Reply #99: Well, I don't really agree with that. [View All]

I think it would be strange to assign the cause of gender differentiation solely to culture given that many other species have no cultural bias to take their behavioural cues from and yet their members still behave according to their gender.

I think the thing that is often missed in these discussions is that any biologically predetermined differences between genders in their instinctive behaviour STILL shouldn't give anyone a free pass to screw around with other people. That really ought to be enough. I certainly don't think being biologically predisposed towards certain kinds of thinking exempts grown-up human beings from conducting themselves in an acceptably civilised fashion, we have something *better* than genetics now, we have language and understanding, but I think it's unwise to assume that the phenomena consequent on and pertaining to speech and understanding can explain *all* human thought. We are not the only things in the world that can think. There's a great deal of thinking going on all the time on behalf of creatures who have never heard or spoken or understood a single word. It's reasonable to assume that that kind of thinking is available to humanity as well, given that there does not appear to be any obvious evolutionary advantage in throwing it away...