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May 23, 2007
Confused Americans for Truth - Gender Stereotypes and the Tendency to Ignore the Obvious in Favor of the Subtle
Yesterday Bruce and his daughter Maggie were discussing a homework assignment on gender stereotypes for her psychology class. Eventually, the two of them got on to the stereotype about women being mysterious and bringing evil into the world. Maggie had read about this in her class, and the prevailing theory was that it had something to do with the shape of the reproductive organs: absent the use of clothing technology, the woman's organs are tucked inside and the man's are out there for the whole world to see. Hence mysterious and tempting on the one hand and normal and obvious on the other.
This is another one of those cases where humans tend to over-analyze themselves. There is, in fact, an ancient document that explains exactly what the theologians were thinking when they came up with these gender roles. Basically, a priest happened to walk in on a childbirth ceremony that didn't involve modern pain-killers and thought to himself what the HECK did women do to deserve THAT? Goodbye equality, hello original sin.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
("Mysterious and tempting" my left fang. These stereotypes were invented by men. Men are not that complicated. Just ask any woman!)
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