<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">And it’s not like children are raised in a gender neutral environment until they’re 12. The socialization process starts at birth. dan</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Curiously, it begins before that. You will read or hear of this nowhere else, as it comes directly out of my head.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The fetus can hear, at some point. And can hear his mother quite well, and environmental sounds pretty well, as fluid carries sound much better than air does.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">So what does the fetus hear? Probably about as much as Mama hears. But a sort of imprinting occurs, and the infant will be partial to Mama's voice and those like hers, and those will typically be other women. Men with their lower voices are more unfamiliar and with the baby's 'instincts' they are to be suspected. This would be reinforced greatly if men around the mother shouted at her, or just shouted. Loud noises, along with loss of support, are the only two inherited fears. Loud noise coupled with males' voices and you have a learned fear occurring before birth. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">If I am right, this could carry on into adulthood and may even be permanent. Results? Men are more feared than women, and of course other factors support this idea, as most violence comes from boys and men.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">What else, you say? Teens' choice of music may be affected. Nearly all boy rock stars have high voices or use the upper part of the voice in their songs. Even in opera the good guys are the tenors and the bad guys the bassos. Few men's popular music voices are deep. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I am willing to leave this topic with this idea: I don't trust and therefore don't believe anyone on the topic of sex and gender who is not in some scientific field relating to the study of those topics. Too much politics here; too much bias. Too many opinions and too little data. Most things here will never be effectively proven because we ethically cannot do the studies necessary to assign values to nature and nurture.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For my money it's 50/50 at best and when not that, genetics is stronger and genetics is guiding what learning is occurring. Prepared learning, some call it. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 2:42 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">On Oct 26, 2018, at 12:18 PM, SR Ballard <<a href="mailto:sen.otaku@gmail.com" target="_blank">sen.otaku@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I think it would take extreme environments to alter the power of genetics.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div></blockquote><br><div>I’m not saying genetics have no power, I’m asking how much power they have in relation to environment. Is environment 10%? 25%? I sincerely doubt it would be near or above 50% actually.</div><div><br></div><div>And further, what counts as “extreme”? Sexual assault? Child abuse? PTSD? They are honestly pretty common it seems.</div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">And it’s not like children are raised in a gender neutral environment until they’re 12. The socialization process starts at birth.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">By the way, two professors who write quite reasonably on gender issues are Anne Fausto-Sterling (_Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World_) and </span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Caroline Fine (_Testosterone Rex_).</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Libertarians all too often end up being bio-essentialists (and conservative ones at that) on this issue. But there are a growing number of libertarians who take what I believe to be a better approach to gender. See:</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://c4ss.org/content/38269" target="_blank">https://c4ss.org/content/38269</a></div><div><br></div><div>and, if you have time, </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://charleswjohnson.name/essays/libertarian-feminism/" target="_blank">http://charleswjohnson.name/essays/libertarian-feminism/</a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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