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Fertility can also be translated into favorable factors
People common sense will feel that childbirth brings a lot of trouble to women, so since everything only depends on the explanation, then as long as you change your thinking, fertility can become a favorable factor.
From the point of view of individual philosophy, . Although the process of procreation is very difficult, the corresponding reward is to have the certain progeny of oneself, to be able to personally feel the birth and conception of life in one's own body, and to feel the process of high-frequency life energy incarnating into a low-frequency material body in one's own body, which can be described as a process of divinity that is very close to the source of creation.
Specific to society, . For example, she can fully grasp this initiative in creating life, according to her own wishes and circumstances, when she wants to have children, she will choose a high-quality partner to procreate, rather than having to accept the other party's pickiness in the marriage market and become a tool for others to produce heirs (of course, in the current society, it is still difficult for women to grasp the initiative in reproduction).
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So far, five examples have been given to illustrate that biological determinism is only an explanation. From another perspective, perhaps the result will be different.
But here we need to emphasize that all of the above is not to argue about who is better or worse between the two sexes, but to try to expand the current mainstream patriarchal thinking, see more possibilities, and subvert the previous male-centered view. In fact, the two sexes are a whole, and they are indispensable to the development of society, and there is no level of value.
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One of the reasons is that women's domination of the reproductive process is a great psychological trauma for men. Thus, with the development of the productive forces, after the male gained dominance, he seized the female domination over reproduction, turned them into private property and reproductive tools, and restricted her freedom in various ways.
For example, the practice of sexual behavior, tolerating male indulgence, but using chastity and slut-shaming to distort and transform women's sexuality;
Propaganda, husbands and children, serving the family is the biggest mission, which also makes them form a dependence on men, emotionally more likely to produce a "love brain", but also more vulnerable;
In practice, "marrying" makes a woman become like an object, not only in the husband's house into a servant and a tool of fertility, but also in the mother's house as an outsider;
Children, which can even be said to obliterate the great contribution made by women in fertility, make people think that men can be passed on from generation to generation, and further exacerbate the preference for sons.
And, for example, brain differences between the sexes, differences in apricot behavior, and emphasizing the disadvantages of women in the reproductive process to illustrate that men are superior and need sex more. These physiological explanations make it more difficult to change the situation.
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As Beauvoir said, for the causes of gender status, analysis from physiological factors can indeed help, but.
That is to say, differences do not lead to inequality, and only when various value judgments are artificially attached to this difference does everything begin to be different. Thus, the root cause of inequality is not natural physiological differences, but various value judgments.
For example, the Karen people living on the border between Laos and Myanmar are known as the Longnecks, where people believe that the length of the neck is related to the family background; the longer the neck of the girl, the more it is regarded as beautiful and elegant. Therefore, people with different neck lengths have different differences in their lives. But it is clear that the length of the neck is not the real factor that leads to inequality, and the value judgment on the length of the neck is.
It is often thought that inequality arises because there are differences between the sexes, but in fact, it is likely that this difference is really revealed and amplified because of certain unequal value judgments.
- "Seeing the World Through Gender"
On the contrary, blindly attributing the differences in gender status to physiological factors will only allow the real causes to be covered up, ignoring the more important socio-cultural factors behind them, and making it more difficult to achieve equality.
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Finally, in general, gender problems are not all caused by physiology, but more by cultural shaping. Physiology is just physiology, look at it from another angle, act in another way, you can get different results.
In order to reflect the shaping power of the social environment on gender roles, a new concept has recently emerged: This concept emphasizes the key role of culture in the formation of human gender identity, reminding us that the causes of female oppression are artificial, institutional, cultural, and constructed, rather than biological and non-essential.
The vast majority of what we have attributed to human nature in the past is no more than a reaction to the restrictions imposed on us by the civilization in which we live.
—Anthropologist Boas
Resources
"Seeing the World Through Gender" Shen Yifei / 2019
The Second Sex [french] Simone de Beauvoir / Shanghai Translation Publishing House / 2014
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