I did say truly twice, I guess. But I do favor something more akin to social determinism than genetic determinism. And not always for the most logical reasons, admittedly. If I were to give in to believing all of the things evolutionary psychologist say about the hardwiring about human nature, I'd sink into a pretty terrible misanthropy. So advocating change, and belief that it is possible, is the only recourse I have for acting liking people and a biological category.
Also, I have this lingering feeling that such claims don't add up. There's not a lot of peer reviewed studies leading to firm evidence that gendered, racial, or any other demographic behavior or statistical tendency is biologically hardwired. There's a lot of claims, but I don't really see any hard evidence, that is, things like peer reviewed studies, showing that we are any more hardwired to behave a certain way based on gender, than we are do be based on something like race or hair color or skin color or the shape of our noses or something like that. And considering that race doesn't exist, I think there are similar implications for gender and common beliefs about gendered preferences and behavior.
Either that, or I simply have a very different biology than the vast majority of humanity. And that differing biology is seemingly on a collision course with said humanity.
Someone who doesn't like any gender norms is not who I am from some kind of ideological brainwashing or anything like that. It's been a fundamental feeling that has welled up and festered inside of me since before I went through puberty. I'm just following the same path I've been on ever since I can remember, having a burning irritation with any and all gender norms that I always have to get out of my system, so long as I'm forced to live in a world where they exist. I would call this irritated feeling with gender norms a fundamental part of my psychology and a static, predictable part of who I am at this point.
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