"Men are from Mars": Gender Essentialism
One of the biggest pet peeves I have when I read or look at things about gender, is the amount of assumptions we make around what makes a man and what makes a woman. So in this episode we’re going to find out, are men really cavemen? And why gender essentialism is a slippery rope
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Show Notes
One of the biggest pet peeves I have when I read or look at things about gender, is the amount of assumptions we make around what makes a man and what makes a woman. How many times have you heard the word or phrase: “Men’s brains are like this and they think about sex all the time or they think about being the protector because that’s how they were born to be because of their real life masculine brain.” So in this episode we’re going to find out, are men really cavemen? And why essentialism is a slippery rope
Links:
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.htm
https://forge.medium.com/how-i-finally-got-men-to-talk-about-their-feelings-in-therapy-cddd48b0af4c
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