Surely there would be a great deal of merit to considering similarities more seriously when we talk about gender--that's my worry (and Gauntlett's, apparently) about the whole Mars-Venus thing that continues to undergird the "commonsense" assumptions about gender difference.
I got a kick out of the two points you make at the beginning of your blog: that you don't understand the "male psyche" and that maybe men and women face some similar challenges. They're contradictory points, right? I mean, especially when they face similar challenges, is it reasonable to expect that there is an essentially-differentiated "psyche" for each sex?
Surely there would be a great deal of merit to considering similarities more seriously when we talk about gender--that's my worry (and Gauntlett's, apparently) about the whole Mars-Venus thing that continues to undergird the "commonsense" assumptions about gender difference.
ReplyDeleteI got a kick out of the two points you make at the beginning of your blog: that you don't understand the "male psyche" and that maybe men and women face some similar challenges. They're contradictory points, right? I mean, especially when they face similar challenges, is it reasonable to expect that there is an essentially-differentiated "psyche" for each sex?