Are Gender Roles Natural?

How the dominant class uses pseudo-science to reinforce oppressive stereotypes.

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Blaming gender roles on nature or evolution may be as old as gender roles themselves. What’s remarkable is that it can be used to justify everything and it’s opposite — You can say that women’s modesty is linked to their need to be picky when selecting a mate, or that their promiscuity is…