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[–]DistantGlimmer[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I get it that you seem to think stereotypes are negative things but they don't have to be ( see the "model minority" thing for example) It still puts pressure on people to conform to the way they are "supposed to be" according to the stereotype and still limits their ability to operate comfortably outside of that. The voice example is an interesting one because it's at least largely physically caused. Differences like that would exist in a post-gender world (just like differences in things like athletic ability). I guess it would just fall on people in that world to make sure that physical differences between sexes didn't lead to a new set of gender differences. It actually made me kind of depressed to think about though as your prior comment made me realize just how hard it will be to eradicate social differences between the way men and women are treated in society.