Hi, tkp: we haven't been introduced, but I hope you don't mind me commenting on what you said.
I too went through a "phase" (in my case it was early college) where I remember arguing vehemently with several men about "how sexual differences were culturally determined." (We were talking about secondary ones like strength, visual/spatial awareness, not the obvious "what's under the tail" stuff.) Shulamith Firestone's "Dialectic of Sex" had just come out some years before, and people were seriously talking about the eventual hormonal / surgical elimination of sex differences. "The Story of X" was really taken seriously. Just a little later, Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time" shocked with its portrayal of the lactating man. Now to me it seems mostly silly.
I have been told I have a very "male brain" too. Neurologically there probably *is* a continuum of differences (as you point out.) The key is to use what you have as best you can.
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I too went through a "phase" (in my case it was early college) where I remember arguing vehemently with several men about "how sexual differences were culturally determined." (We were talking about secondary ones like strength, visual/spatial awareness, not the obvious "what's under the tail" stuff.) Shulamith Firestone's "Dialectic of Sex" had just come out some years before, and people were seriously talking about the eventual hormonal / surgical elimination of sex differences. "The Story of X" was really taken seriously. Just a little later, Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time" shocked with its portrayal of the lactating man. Now to me it seems mostly silly.
I have been told I have a very "male brain" too. Neurologically there probably *is* a continuum of differences (as you point out.) The key is to use what you have as best you can.