Gender Roles
Ok, I got in a big fight with my psychology professor because he said that boys and girls are taught at a young age to like masculine and feminine things based purely on their social situations and that it has nothing to do with biological or genetic makeup. I argued that our biological makeup has an influence on it all because it is what pushes society to teach us in that way. For example, boys like GI Joes and guns because it is part of our mental imprint to be more aggressive, or if you want to look at it in early human evolution standards, to be the hunters and providers, so boys tend to like those things, not simply because their parents told them to like them. And their parents, more specifically their fathers, sort of influence them to like them because they went through the same development stage and have an interest in similar things.
He told me I was just wrong and I told him he sucked. What do you think?
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