6. Recognize that gender differences were God’s idea—and most people don’t dispute them.
Not every blog reader shares the Christian faith, but for those who do, let’s dial all the noise down and simply remember that God could have created one type of person and instead He created two. And He called this very good.
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
(Genesis 1:27,31 NIV)
Celebrating our male-ness or our female-ness and seeing those two ways of being as “very good” is where we should strive to land as well.
I believe this is where most people do land. The vast majority of people are not wrestling with whether biological sex differences play out in common gender differences. For example, in a recent Pew poll, 89% of respondents agreed, “Men and women are basically different when it comes to how they express their feelings.” This obvious reality that we see on the outside is based (yet again) in brain wiring differences on the inside. And most people know that. Most people have common sense on this and are just trying to live life in a complex culture that has suddenly gone (in my opinion) slightly crazy on this subject.
So if you happen to encounter a culture-warrior who vehemently disagrees with you, you can be winsome and caring, truthful and kind. You can also recognize that they are the outlier, not you.
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