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Wow. So male fire ants could be from Mars, and female fire ants could be from Venus?
What I mean to say is I don't know about postmodern, but this is one of the ways in which human sex/gender is conceptualized already, in pop culture and, I think, sometimes in evolutionary biology too. I looked at a terrible book in a bookshop (and I keep referring to it - I really have to find out who wrote it and what it's called) recently which was talking about mitochondrial DNA (or something - if this sounds even vaguely familiar to anyone, i would really appreciate some information so I can actually inform myself about this properly rather than making these vague and stupid posts) and asserting that female humans are genetically antagonistic to maleness - the writer was saying that male homosexuality was caused by the desire of the mitochondrial DNA that there not be any male humans, so if a woman is unlucky enough to conceive a boy baby, on some selfish-gene-type level a process is activated which makes the boy baby gay, so that at least he won't have any offspring (and thus he doesn't count evolutionarily). So models of the genetic distinctness between men and women are starting to emerge, just as people raised on Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus get old enough to be funded to do research... |
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