09-05-2014, 12:57 PM
Well, not too sure about the extra terrestrial business, Lenneth, but I do agree with the points about estrogen based miscarriage treatments having a huge affect.
But, taking another tack, I also believe evolution plays a role. In prior eras, usually, survival dictated that two roles be enforced...the hunter/warrior and the caregiver/nurturer, ie male and female respectively. However, when a society reaches a point where these roles are no longer needed, as has happened not only recently in developed Western culture but also within priviliged segments os past societies (think of the aristocrats of prerevolutionary Europe and England...there were times when the Royal court of France was rife with crossdressing), then evolution no longer requires rigid definition of gender or sex roles and the system becomes one held in place only by societal convention. Barring some cataclysmic event throwing Western developed societies back into a more brutal state, I can envision a future rapid decline in gender stereotyping, at least in geographical areas where technology is most prevelant and where brute force is no longer necessary for survival.
Of course, I could be completely full of it...tee hee.
But, taking another tack, I also believe evolution plays a role. In prior eras, usually, survival dictated that two roles be enforced...the hunter/warrior and the caregiver/nurturer, ie male and female respectively. However, when a society reaches a point where these roles are no longer needed, as has happened not only recently in developed Western culture but also within priviliged segments os past societies (think of the aristocrats of prerevolutionary Europe and England...there were times when the Royal court of France was rife with crossdressing), then evolution no longer requires rigid definition of gender or sex roles and the system becomes one held in place only by societal convention. Barring some cataclysmic event throwing Western developed societies back into a more brutal state, I can envision a future rapid decline in gender stereotyping, at least in geographical areas where technology is most prevelant and where brute force is no longer necessary for survival.
Of course, I could be completely full of it...tee hee.