vulpineamethyst:

notthegrouch:

kushblazer666:

sorry but can we please accept that human beings are not particularly sexually dimorphic or do i have to live in the culture war until i fucking die

notable examples of sexual dimorphism among animals include: different skin/fur/feather colors and patterns, different body shapes and sizes, and body functions being so drastically different that for hundreds of years scientists had the impression they were different species.

Meanwhile in humans, neither skin nor hair color is different among sexes, body size difference has a relatively huge overlap making the averages barely distinguishable and body functions practically only differ in relation to child bearing and care. Any differences outside of that is either negligable or more influenced by local culture than people think.

so, yeah, let’s get rid of gender essentialism based on outdated conceptualizations of sexual dimorphic species, please.

also worth noting that every time scientists think they’ve found a gendered difference in brain function in humans, studies with larger sample populations find that it was actually just a fluke and the ‘difference’ is just statistical noise.