[HelloNurse]

Gender is an opinion, but it is a sufficiently coherent opinion across different people and different times that it can be studied and discussed from an almost objective historical and anthropological perspective; the "evil spirit" cannot claim that, for example, typical blacksmiths in stories are not male.

[blueflow]

The word "typical" sort of turns it into a tautology. Whatever your idea of gender is decides which blacksmith is typical and which isn't.

[HelloNurse]

The gender that blacksmiths in stories are described to be is typical or unusual with reference to stories, not to my ideas or yours. Do you recall any fairytale with a female blacksmith?