All human beings are individuals, with their own particular blend of Yin and Yang traits. Broad differences in how women and men appear in this culture are overwhelmingly due to intense and ongoing gender socialization and indoctrination. There is absolutely no reputable scientific evidence that men and women are fundamentally different in a binary way - except nominally so in the physical body.
In other words, differences between males and females may not “add up” in a consistent way to create two kinds of human nature; but rather, as with sex differences in the brain, create “mosaics” of personality traits, attitudes, interests, and behaviors, some more common in males than in females, others more common in females than in males.
This makes the notion of female natures and male natures as unintelligible as that of female brains and male brains. Which of the many combinations of characteristics that males display should be considered male nature? Is it a profile of pure masculinity that appears to barely exist in reality? What does it mean to say that “boys will be boys,” or to ask why a woman can’t be more like a man? Which boy? Which woman, and which man?
Fine, Cordelia. Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society (pp. 105-106). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
As I often point out, what exactly is the common “male” nature shared by Pee Wee Herman, Donald Trump, Ru Paul, and Mikhail Baryshnikov?
