"Studies of prenatal androgen exposure have provided some evidence that femininity and masculinity are partly biologically determined."
@realcaseyrollins Haha. Why do you highlight that? What do you think?
@sim
I'm pretty sure that males have masculine forms, and women have feminine forms. How they behave might be a different matter, tho.
@realcaseyrollins Yeah. It does seem a lot more complex to me, more than there being a masculine and feminine form, because there seems to be overlap. People are individuals in how things get expressed, but I do think their biology has an influence. How much or in what form I couldn't say.
@sim
More than anything biology probably determines who one decides to imitate.
@realcaseyrollins Do you have an example to demonstrate what you mean?
@sim
A young boy would probably be more predisposed to to imitate his father than his mother would be my guess. We do know that people tend to make friends with or at least hang out with people who look similar to them later in life, so I would also assume they would then dress like them, talk like them, and imitate certain mannerisms and behaviors in order to fit in.
@realcaseyrollins That's interesting. It's almost like people seek out relationships which are most familiar to them from their childhood, at least I think that would also fit in with what you've said.
Although I do wonder about young boys... are they more likely to imitate their mother if their father is absent in some way? Or more likely to turn to peer pressures if they don't have a strong male presence in their life?
Although I do wonder about young boys... are they more likely to imitate their mother if their father is absent in some way? Or more likely to turn to peer pressures if they don't have a strong male presence in their life?
@realcaseyrollins Yeah. I was also thinking about mentors. It would probably depend more on who they were interacting with the most and admired as to who they were imitating. How much do we imitate those around us?
