A speaker argues that treating gender as purely social ignores biological differences and suggests an evolutionary perspective might better explain masculinity, femininity, and relationships, similar to how we understand ancestral diet and health.
When I was in college, I was also getting all of this teaching that diminished the sex differences between men and women. I sort of got this impression that gender was just completely socially constructed and that there's really no difference between men and women except this incidental genitalia differences. Is denying differences in our biology and physiology and psychology helping us in the realm of pursuing human flourishing? Or is this another area that we really need to consider from an ancestral perspective. We've talked about many aspects of ancestral health and evolutionary mismatch. We understand that an ancestral perspective on diet is more helpful than much of the conventional guidance that we have had, but I saw the same thing when it came to concepts of masculinity and femininity and relationships.
