How Much of Human Nature is Optional?

Rachel Ryan doesn't feel like a man... but she feels a little guilty of that fact. She thinks that gender is not a social construct and discovered that makes her transgressive!

Nowhere is this oppression more apparent than in the workplace. God forbid

a young, ambitious career woman admit to wanting romance and a family as much as she wants that corner office. Instead, feminist champions of our gender-neutral society encourage “single young women in their sexual prime” to suppress conventional female desires in favor of “more-important things… such as good grades and internships and job interviews and a financial future of their own.”

Since entering the professional world, I’ve found amusement in openly admitting to wanting a family in the not-so-distant future. After all, I’m a fan of shock-value, and this statement is almost always guaranteed to raise eyebrows.

She is also a social science type and reads journal articles.

“While not every woman is intuitive or every man handy with tools, neurological scans of young males and females suggest that — on average — their brains really do develop differently… on average, the brains of men seem to be better equipped to comprehend what people perceive and how they react to it. Females, on average, appear to be better able to connect the parts of their brains that handle analysis and intuition.”

How liberating it is to confirm that my sensitivity, empathy, investment in appearance, preoccupation with romance, strong desire for a family and other conventionally feminine traits are not manufactured, but natural, and certainly nothing to be ashamed of.

She thinks that when leaders go around telling people that male/female differences are just constructs that oppressors made up, it's the women who are the main victims.