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by drewcoo 318 days ago
> Societal gender norms have existed for probably as long as humans have

Or gender norms have existed since gender was defined in the 70s-80s by feminist scholars. Before that was only sex, which biologists know to be not a binary but a bimodal distribution, itself.

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That sound you hear is literally every anthropologist laughing hysterically.
Norms are not defined by scholars or scientists, even if they may define the terms to describe them.