New study supports that gender is an ENTIRELY social construct

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According to Dr. Lise Eliot, an associate professor of neuroscience at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, until recently the general consensus was that females had a higher hippocampal volume than men. This supports the assumption that females show “greater emotional expressiveness, stronger interpersonal skills and better verbal memory.” Basically the idea that women think too much, cry more and remember everything a man does has been a phenomenon indirectly supported by science. That is until Eliot and a team of researchers conducted a study that would fundamentally challenge this “general consensus” and effectively, prove it wrong.

The group got together healthy individuals of all ages and conducted MRI studies on each of them only to find that there were no differences between male or female hippocampal size. Eliot went on to explain that other findings on the corpus callosum (the thing that allows the two sides of the cerebrum to communicate) show that there is no size difference in men or women and therefore their cerebrums do not differ in the ways that they process language.

Another recent study looked at the correlation between physical fitness levels and hippocampal size in 9- and 10-year-old boys and girls. Ultimately the children who were more physically fit had a larger hippocampus size and did better on memory tests than their less fit counterparts, despite gender.

These studies are important, they question how we look at gender scientifically and socially. It is not often that science, something that is meant to separate truth from fallacy, actually supports the fact that we’re all blank-slate, barebones human beings. Again, regardless of gender.

Read full story: http://www.theplaidzebra.com/science-finally-supports-that-we-are-all-born-as-blank-slates-and-gender-is-merely-a-construct/

[Dramatica 13,698]

Not to make anyone upset, but religion played an important role in enforcing the idea of a couple consisting of a man and a woman.

Anyway, glad to see that humans are finally opening their eyes to the truth.

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

Completely agree. I was born a male, and love my male body, but i don't really associate with either gender. I just consider myself "me,", though i would say I associate more as a societal defined male than a female. But i hate labels and its not even something I would really even announce. Like I'm "me" and its not that big of a deal. 

[faux 2,190]

Great but too bad it will take 2000 years for people to realise. 

[imwoahvicky 4,248]

It is nice to see humans opening their eyes.

Just today in class we somehow got into chromosomes and someone asked about, "Remember that guy who was pregnant? How was that possible?!" (if anyone remembers that book)

The teacher just casually explained it and she understood.

 

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7 minutes ago, Gaga of Time said:

Not to make anyone upset, but religion played an important role in enforcing the idea of a couple consisting of a man and a woman.

Anyway, glad to see that humans are finally opening their eyes to the truth.

I completeley agree... But the text is more about the emotional and cognitive characteristics assigned to each gender, supposedly ingrained in us before influenced by society... This study denies this

Not like the LGBTIQ community didn't know this ages ago...

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Just now, hmlswine said:

I completeley agree... But the text is more about the emotional and cognitive characteristics assigned to each gender, supposedly ingrained in us before influenced by society... This study denies this

Not that the LGBTIQ community didn't know this ages ago...

I don't mean to offend anybody but especially G in the LGBT+ community is known for employing very strict and rigorous gender roles/stereotypes/transphobia. I mean the concepts of masc4masc, "straight-acting", the "femme gay" stigma or how transgender women (especially those of color) are delegitimized & ridiculed, are great examples of that.

It has gotten better in the recent years, especially this year with Caitlyn Jenner coming out, but just because you are thrown together under one umbrella term doesn't mean that there is actual empathy or mutual understanding, which is a shame imo.

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1 minute ago, amenvodka said:

I don't mean to offend anybody but especially G in the LGBT+ community is known for employing very strict and rigorous gender roles/stereotypes/transphobia. I mean the concepts of masc4masc, "straight-acting", the "femme gay" stigma or how transgender women (especially those of color) are delegitimized & ridiculed, are great examples of that.

It has gotten better in the recent years, especially this year with Caitlyn Jenner coming out, but just because you are thrown together under one umbrella term doesn't mean that there is actual empathy or mutual understanding, which is a shame imo.

I guess you're right  I sometimes put our community on a pedestal... guilty

[Pablo 8,582]

This is obviously true and I think that is why so many people struggle with identifying with with their gender. Too much emphasis is placed on what gender you were born and how you should act/wear/look like/live. 

[Didymus 34,380]

25 minutes ago, Gaga of Time said:

Not to make anyone upset, but religion played an important role in enforcing the idea of a couple consisting of a man and a woman.

Not just a lie, but also 100% off-topic. Well done.

[PartySick 172,542]

26 minutes ago, Gaga of Time said:

Not to make anyone upset, but religion played an important role in enforcing the idea of a couple consisting of a man and a woman.

Anyway, glad to see that humans are finally opening their eyes to the truth.

Religion. Stories ancient people used to describe natural things that they didn't understand. Once the leaders got a hold of these beliefs and saw their impact they twisted them as they saw fit to control the uneducated masses. Thus we have the basis for a struggle lasting thousands of years even up to this day in 2015 where people can be killed just because they love someone who has the same s-xual organs as they do.

[PartySick 172,542]

15 minutes ago, amenvodka said:

I don't mean to offend anybody but especially G in the LGBT+ community is known for employing very strict and rigorous gender roles/stereotypes/transphobia. I mean the concepts of masc4masc, "straight-acting", the "femme gay" stigma or how transgender women (especially those of color) are delegitimized & ridiculed, are great examples of that.

It has gotten better in the recent years, especially this year with Caitlyn Jenner coming out, but just because you are thrown together under one umbrella term doesn't mean that there is actual empathy or mutual understanding, which is a shame imo.

That's because the label of "gay" itself fits the ridged gender binary. I call myself gay only to make it simpler to explain to other people but in all honesty I'm on the same loose and fluid spectrum as everyone else <3

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5 minutes ago, Didymus said:

Not just a lie, but also 100% off-topic. Well done.

Like Eliot said herself, “s-x differences in the brain are irresistible to those looking to explain stereotypic differences between men and women.” Now that this disconnect has occurred, will science support the breakdown of the rigid gender binaries and stereotypes that we are all so aware of?

 

I said that religion enforced this idea of man + woman = couple, which makes most people unable to think of humans outside of the idea of either a man, or a woman, because that's how religion taught us to make couples.

 

I'm sorry I didn't do the work to bring you into my mind, before I carry on explaining.

 

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18 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Religion. Stories ancient people used to describe natural things that they didn't understand. Once the leaders got a hold of these beliefs and saw their impact they twisted them as they saw fit to control the uneducated masses. Thus we have the basis for a struggle lasting thousands of years even up to this day in 2015 where people can be killed just because they love someone who has the same s-xual organs as they do.

Erm, not only has the "religion arises from a misunderstanding of nature" theory been unanimously rejected by scholarship of religion since the mid-20th c. (meaning: you're about three generations too late with that bs) with the newest research continuously confirming the uselessness of it, the rest of your post is also entirely fictitious. How ironic that these common sense theories are no better than the "stories" people mock religion with. Talk about twisting truth to control uneducated masses.

I won't argue against the fact that homos-xuality is a much despised concept in world religion but it's by no means a simple thing so presenting these things as way too simple just exposes you as having a laughably transparent agenda. So carry on believing what you do (belief being the ironic key word here) but don't think you're being objective 'cause you're far from it.

11 minutes ago, Gaga of Time said:

Like Eliot said herself, “s-x differences in the brain are irresistible to those looking to explain stereotypic differences between men and women.” Now that this disconnect has occurred, will science support the breakdown of the rigid gender binaries and stereotypes that we are all so aware of?

I said that religion enforced this idea of man + woman = couple, which makes most people unable to think of humans outside of the idea of either a man, or a woman, because that's how religion taught us to make couples.

That doesn't make any sense and I hope you're at least aware of it. Stereotypes about gender have been around long before "religion enforced this idea of man + woman = couple" (which is not even a part of the majority of world religions, just look at Greek culture for the most obvious example, I mean, Jesus it's not even part of Christianity strictly speaking) and it's much easier to argue that religion eventually did enforce the idea on people because they believed men and women had to perform certain roles, which means that the stereotypes about gender already existed and religion just used them within their own framework. I mean, if you really think that men and women didn't naturally gravitate towards each other before religion had to force them, you're in dire need of a science lesson.

[Ferrer Zorola 3,966]

aren't females incapable of being colorblind unlike men?