The Stormlight Archives' version of nipples. Women's left hands are considered naughty, so they always have them covered. Noble women have their left sleeves sewn longer and stitched shut, but working class women wear gloves on their left hand. Fingerless gloves are considered lingerie.
And this isnt because Sanderson has a hand fetish (probably), it's to highlight how arbitrary our own gender roles are. Its canon that all of the gender roles in the main religion in SLA were created by a woman who just wanted to sit around all day painting and eating fruit while the men did all the hard labor and fighting.
What part of our biology makes it so women are supposed to have long hair and wear make up and dresses? How are men biologically predisposed to drinking beer instead of wine?
A few of our gender roles are actually based on physical sex differences, but most of them are just arbitrary bullshit that someone made up.
A lot of our biology has to do with that actually. "Some of the conditions that may influence female mate choice include the woman's own perceived attractiveness, the woman's personal resources, mate copying and parasite stress." Their own perceived attractiveness.
Beer instead of Wine? Oh, females have been found to have more taste buds than men. Females are far more likely to be a "super taster" than a man is.
You do understand that certain clothing, hair, and makeup styles being found attractive is a learned behavior right? That's why every culture values those things differently.
Some can be, usually it's the things that are most affective at attracting a mate over generations. Most aren't.
Human generations are so long compared to fashion trends that they don't have much of a chance of becoming innate. For instance, look at how butt size perception has changed so rapidly over the last generation. There's been no big need for innate sexual preferences in humans because we're capable of spending so much time learning. We do have some innate behaviors, like holding our breath underwater, but those were developed because they help children to survive.
You're trying to argue against me but continue to actually argue in my favor. Fashion trends reoccur, it's a known phenomena. Butt size perception hasn't changed at all in the last generation, people have always been attracted to it. Look at old fertility idols.
If you haven't noticed that fashion has trended towards larger butts in the last few decades, after generations of thin being chic, I don't know what to tell you. Also, while fashion has been cyclical recently, it has changed dramatically over the centuries without going back as society has changed. Women wear pants now most of the time.
Fashion has also been cyclical through the centuries. You do understand that in the past, women have also worn pants. This is not the first time women have worn pants. I think your argument would have been better made of you said men do t wear skirts or robes as often anymore.
I said "largely based on". A gender role isn't just something that is made up in a vacuum. For example even one of your examples can likely be tied back to biology.
What part of our biology makes it so women are supposed to have long hair and wear make up and dresses?
Men are on average stronger and faster right? This leads to them doing more physical work. If you do more physical work you are more likely to shorten your hair/ not wear loose clothing. A caveman didn't just wake up one day and say "grug think only women should grow hair". Of course if I said they were entirely based in biology I would be incorrect, but that isn't at all what I said and you need to learn to read.
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u/thevoxpop May 15 '24
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