Now you know where this blog post/stream of thought is coming from. A point on the whole suppression of qualities in men and women....I completely agree with this. From literally birth, there are social influences about how we're supposed to act, given our set of biological circumstances. If we're a male, then our room as an infant will be baby blue - if female, then a pale shade of pink. A female who plays sports goes against the gender roles as much as a male who likes playing with dolls. One point that Kimmel (the guy in the video) makes is that half of human qualities are suppressed. Men are supposed to be leaders, be the ones working and supporting society and households, while women are the ones staying home as caretakers, hesitant to pursue leadership reasons for a myriad of reasons. This is only half the picture. I'll leave Kimmel to talk about it, because he says it in ways better than I could come up with, but there's a huge chunk missing from society, and it's all because of the presumed gender roles that are immediately imparted upon us.
I'm starting to believe the philosopher John Locke with his tabula rasa idea that we are a clean slate when we are born, and then everything that makes us who we are is written from there. I'm finding it to be hard to come up with qualities that are absolutely unchangeable outside the constraints of biology - height is the only one I have so far. Sexual orientation, depending on who you ask. Point is, the social influences around us are far and wide, and as long as humans do nothing with the "men are this, women are that" idea, we won't go anywhere.
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