ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Human Reproduction, Sex Assignment, Masculinity
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What we considered to be natural men and women might turn out to be different then what we thought. To figure this out you you have to know that sex is the observable physical differences between male and female, especially biological expressions related to human reproduction. Gender is the expectations of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes. Sexual dimorphism is the phenotypic differences males and females as the same species. This is the ways humans learn to behave as a man or woman and to recognize behaviors as masculine or feminine within their cultural context. Gender, in the us, can be taught to boys and girls through youth sports. Masculinity in the us is constructed in high school when guys are called fags for liking to dance or paint or aren"t accepted because they are not jocks. Masculine: aggressive, physical, tough, competitive, sports oriented, testosterone driven, strong, unemotional.
