Are 'feminine men' the way they are mostly due to biological factors?

[AHunter3]

@cuauhtemoc

I don’t know that it’s possible to completely eliminate the influence of social pressure to conform to the gender associated with biological sex. The “rewards and punishments” for conformity/nonconformity are basically part of the atmosphere. You wouldn’t necessarily be aware that you were encouraging your children to conform, because from your culturally conditioned perspective, you’d be behaving neutrally.

That doesn’t automatically mean that all the gender differences between boys and girls would disappear if we could remove all social conditioning, but the impossibility of (ethically) conducting a proper experiment means we might not be able to precisely determine the degree of influence that society exerts. Oh well.

@drewder

Sounds to me you have a set of pre-conceived notions that you have no interest in overcoming so you ignore evidence that doesn’t support your thesis.

It’s an old argument. It’s about as useful as arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and about as reconcilable as arguing how many gallons of water in yonder swimming pool are due to its length and how many due to its width.

[octopus]

All of biology has a physical origin. Why would the brain be immune to genetic and other physical laws?