Except that we live in a deeply patriarchal culture that still largely finds bisexuality aberrant. Socialization overwhelming drives behavior, particularly when there are often severe social and legal sanctions for stepping outside the norms.
And I don't see how homosexuality proves that there are inherent male and female natures but I think we've spent enough time on that. Let's just move on.
I've never once disagreed that overwhelmingly, men have far superior upper body strength. But that doesn't really speak to a "male nature" other than a male nature to be strong.
Severe discrimination exists in all previously male dominated industries that women have broken into. It's rampant in the military, policing, and in medicine, particularly for female surgeons. It drives huge numbers of women out of STEM occupations.
"In 2019, the Sydney Morning Herald published a story on the rampant sexual harassment, bullying, and misogyny that female surgeons routinely experienced in Australia and New Zealand. It’s something that female doctors, and surgeons, in particular, experience in many countries.
To give you a flavor of professional life as a woman in this field, female trainees and junior surgeons “reported feeling obliged to give their supervisors sexual favours to keep their jobs”; endured flagrantly illegal hostility toward the notion of combining career with motherhood; contended with “boys’ clubs”; and experienced entrenched sexism at all levels and “a culture of fear and reprisal, with known bullies in senior positions seen as untouchable.”
Fine, Cordelia. Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society (p. 126). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
In the US, only about 13% of police officers are women, so they experience a lot of the same lack of mentoring and support, and in at least some instances, high levels of sexism and harassment as well.
I don't mean this in a confrontational way, but when you angrily assert something such as the belief that no women are clamoring to get into coal mining, you might want to first check your facts. Because although 33,000 women was only about 8% of the total of miners, it also is a far cry from zero. And they did this work, despite extremely high levels of discrimination and sexual harassment. Same goes for oil rig roughnecks - it's a small percentage of the number of workers, but there are women who do want to be allowed to be in that field if they can cut it, and who don't want to be harassed and discriminated against just because they are women encroaching on "male" territory.
I do think you are a generally thoughtful person who has an interest in learning, but there are times when your knee-jerk reactions get the better of you, and you say things that are quite often not based in facts to justify those knee-jerk reactions -which sometimes end up being quite hurtful and condescending because of that lack of caution.
I certainly don't know everything, and I don't pretend that I do, but when I don't know something, I say that, or I go look it up. I don't just assume that what feels right to me must the truth.
OK, sermon over.... 😉
