Are there such things as "femininity" and "masculinity" or are they just imaginary things humans made up?

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[–]WhiteZealot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Femininity and masculinity are opposite directions on the scale for any genetics-based trait of a human. For each trait, men and women will have a different average (or a different probability of having said trait), and femininity is then the direction of an arrow pointing from the male average to the female average, and masculinity is the opposite direction.

For example, women are on average shorter than men. Therefore, shortness in an adult is feminine.

[–]Nohope[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Sigh, why are you GCs all "gender" essentialists? I thought the point of GC was to abolish "gender" ("femininity" and "masculinity") but you all act like transmedicalists that say "a man that's short is a defect, he's a feminine man because being short is an innate quality of females"!!

[–]Realwoman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No one said a man being short is a defect but men are on average taller than women. There is significant overlap between men and women, that's true, but it's also true that men are taller than women. This doesn't mean that a short man is any less of a man or that a tall woman is any less of a woman.