“Gender is complex, and gender- differentiated behavior comes in a wide assortment of flavors: a tendency to be competitive, a tendency to be co-operative, physical aggression, verbal communication skills, spatial reasoning, the ability to recognize emotions from facial expressions, making decisions rationally versus intuitively, etc. And again, while on average, women and men’s bell curves peak at different places on all these spectrums, any given man or woman is very likely to score more typically male in some areas, and more typically female in others.”

5 Things Society Unfairly Expects of Men | Gender | AlterNet (via sociolab)
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Posted on Friday, 3 February
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Source: 5 Things Society Unfairly Expects of Men | Gender | AlterNet (via sociolab)
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