01-27-2021, 04:19 PM
(01-27-2021, 03:58 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Margaret Meade's study of tribes in New Guinea showed that societies can vary greatly from Western standards on masculinity and femininity. Some tribes promoted what we would call masculine traits in all, some promoted what we would call feminine traits in all, while others had the two reversed based on Western Standards.
I have always found the way gender was constructed in the indigenous cultures of North America to be extremely fascinating. The number of cultures that have recognized what we call transgenderism in modern times and have accepted it as a part of their culture for generations is very interesting.
(01-27-2021, 03:58 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: And society absolutely in responsible for creating attitudes towards privacy. We're quite prudish in many ways in the US despite promoting sexuality a lot in the media. In some places, coed nudity isn't sexualized and is common.
Yet for some reason we like bathroom stalls that have a huge gap underneath and that you could see in between. We need more European bathrooms. More privacy and bidets.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
