R. A. Briggs

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Elucidations · Episode 106: R. A. Briggs discusses gender · 22 Jun 2018 podcast

because girls have more reproductive investment, of course, are going to have to kowtow to the girls' whims, are going to have to show their value by being decorative and pretty and making a home.

So sociobiologists of Amazonia say all these things.

I don't know whether we should believe them, probably only as much as we should believe the sociobiologists of Patriarcha, but so they say.

So those are the two planets, at least at the beginning of this thought experiment.

As time goes on, Amazonia and Patriarcha both liberalize a bit.

Just a bit.

So their gender stereotypes remain intact.

The fact that one gender is sort of typically dominant over the other also remains intact.

But they relax their rules for membership in the genders.

They allow for transition.

And we can imagine that they sort of don't have the resources for medical transition.

They have a hard time getting people hormones and surgery, but they allow for social transition.

You can opt in or opt out to the bloke category, the Sheila category, the girl category, or the boy category.

So as opting in and opting out becomes allowed, the demographic makeup of these categories shifts so that blokes, she-las, girls, and boys all become about sort of 50-50 balanced between people with stereotypical male characteristics and people with stereotypical female characteristics.

So at the end of this process, the bloke category and the girl category are sort of identical with respect to their relationship to biology.

Half of blokes are sort of stereotypically male, half are stereotypically female with respect to physiology.

They're identical with respect to stereotypes and expectations.

And yet it looks like blokes are men.

The category of blokes started out as a category of men and kept being a category of men and didn't get destroyed by this liberalization.

And the girls are not men because the category of girls started out as a category of not men.

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