The conventional view in academia today is that sex is biological, but gender is a cultural construction.\u00a0 That is, roles that are attached to being male or female are nothing more than the impositions of culture.\u00a0 Well, I just observed my 15-month-old granddaughter picking up her first doll.\u00a0\u00a0 She had played with teddy bears and the like, but she never even saw a doll that looked like a baby.\u00a0 This one wasn\u2019t hers.\u00a0 But she picked it up, cradled it, supported its head, and kissed it.\u00a0 How did she know to do this?\u00a0 No one taught her to.\u00a0 She is not particularly receptive to culture at her age.\u00a0 Her brother, at the ripe age of three, had no interest in that particular toy, even though he has some inchoate notions of babies from the existence of little sister.\u00a0 But she knew immediately how to play mommy.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The conventional view in academia today is that sex is biological, but gender is a cultural construction.\u00a0 That is, roles that are attached to being male or female are nothing more than the impositions of culture.\u00a0 Well, I just observed my 15-month-old granddaughter picking up her first doll.\u00a0\u00a0 She had played with teddy bears and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34,48],"tags":[899,1500],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-personal","category-vocation","tag-gender","tag-motherhood"],"yoast_head":"\n