[GoneGirl]

I don't think it's as much us trying to copy you as it is the fact that we live in a society where it is respectable and great to take on masculine traits , but femininity is seen as a weakness.

I think you've got it right, Emily. Somehow over the eons, natural selection has favored physical and behavioral gender distinctions between males and females, probably because it has helped the human species survive over millions of years. That formula seems to be hard coded in our DNA. Cultural norms tend to flow from the genetic imprints that enforce gender markers in the population.

In Norway, probably the most gender equal country in the developed world, men and women strive even harder to distinguish between their sexual roles through differences in gender expression. It all seems so unfair, but it is what it is.

Clara