#Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

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different: gender through the eyes of a primatologist (2022), by frans de waal

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[maaarine]

r/NoStupidQuestions: How much physically stronger are men actually

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Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Frans de Waal, 2022)

"Rough-and-tumble play serves male bonding and teaches crucial skills.

Since in almost all primates, adult males are physically stronger than females and are more prone to confrontation, they must learn physical restraint at a young age.

An adult male gorilla is so incredibly powerful that with just a little pressure of his knuckles on the chest of a baby, he could squeeze all air out of it.

Yet silverback males do play with gorilla babies, and the babies survive.

Males are so gentle that the mother will just sit nearby watching without any sign of apprehension.

Don’t think that these inhibitions come naturally to animals: they are acquired.

Over his long life, the big male has learned to check his movements while playing with weaker partners.

This caution is known as self-handicapping, a phenomenon found in many animals, from a big dog play-fighting with a tiny one to a polar bear in the Arctic playing with a leashed sled dog, which he could also eat.

The upper-body strength of men and women is so different that there is barely any overlap.

Only a small minority of women even come close to the average physical strength of men.

It would be catastrophic, therefore, if men around the house were unconscious of their physical advantage.

Fathers often play roughly with their children by throwing them up into the air before catching them, tickling them, or rolling around with them on the floor.

Sometimes they let them have the upper hand. The shrieks of laughter tell us that children love these games and the risk and challenges they entail.

Wrestling is particularly common between fathers and sons.

As a result, children often look at Mom and Dad quite differently, turning to the former when they are upset and to the latter for play.

As one review summarized, “Mothers’ interactions with their children are dominated by caretaking, whereas fathers are behaviorally defined as playmates.”

The rough games of fathers teach children crucial first-hand lessons about men’s strength while boosting their physical skills and self- confidence.

But this works only with an extremely inhibited father who learned restraint during thousands of play bouts when he was a boy or young man.

Wrestling games are a crucial part of socialization by fathers and male peers."

[nature-nerd-sarah]

I've been reading this book by Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal. The title translates to "Different - Gender through the eyes of a primatologist".

When my parents gave me this book for my birthday, I did not think it would be good. Older academics have a habit of trying to stay relevant by commenting on current hot topics. Often times, these academics aren't particularly knowledgeable on the topic at hand, and just end up repeating right-wing conservative talking points with a few anecdotes mixed in. I kinda assumed this book would be in the same vein.

I was pleasantly surprised at the introduction, which at least suggested this book would be better than that. In the introduction, De Waal stresses the need for feminism in modern society, validates trans and intersex people, mentions that not every individual has to exhibit the average behaviour of their sex or gender, and perhaps most importantly: He promises not to comment on any gender or sex-related topics that do not have a mirror in the chimpanzees and bonobos he studies. While I'm sure I'll have my disagreements with him later in the book, this at least suggests he's fairly progressive, and will not comment on topics he's not qualified to comment on.

I'll continue reading and posting my thoughts on the book.

[6464quincy]

Are Alpha Males Of Any Use?

BY FRANS DE WAAL Editor’s Note: Frans de Waal’s new book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, has generated some controversy and misunderstanding. Continue reading Are Alpha Males Of Any Use?

[reasonandmeaning]

Are Alpha Males Of Any Use?

BY FRANS DE WAAL Editor’s Note: Frans de Waal’s new book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, has generated some controversy and misunderstanding. Continue reading Are Alpha Males Of Any Use?

[queerographies]

[Diversi][Frans De Waal]

In Diversi il primatologo di fama mondiale Frans de Waal trae spunto da anni di osservazioni sul comportamento degli esseri umani e degli altri animali per dimostrare che la biologia non avalla automaticamente i tradizionali ruoli di genere presenti nelle

In Diversi il primatologo di fama mondiale Frans de Waal trae spunto da anni di osservazioni sul comportamento degli esseri umani e degli altri animali per dimostrare che, nonostante esista un collegamento tra genere e sesso biologico, la biologia non avalla automaticamente i tradizionali ruoli di genere presenti nelle società umane. Avvalorando le sue tesi con riferimenti agli scimpanzé e ai…

[lostandfem]

So I found the person who made up gender, and its the same dude that forced a young boy to be raised as a girl to spare him the embarrassment of having a disfigured penis (from a botched circumcision) who later killed himself because of the psychological trauma it caused. Here’s the study. (Archive) Below is how I found out.

“Before Money came along, those who failed to fit society’d pigeonholes were customarily dismissed as deviants and freaks. It was this sexologist who in 1955 introduced the label ‘gender’, which until then had been used only for grammatical classification. In English, we recognize the gender of the words such as king and queen or ram and ewe. Money borrowed this grammatical label, saying that for him gender refers to “all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively.” He set gender apart from biological sex, aware of the occasional disparity between those two. He also founded the world first Gender Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins University in 1965.”

— Different: Gender through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal

[nogendermoretrees]

We stan a butch queen!

Image description in alt text. From the book Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal.

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Sex and Gender: Diversity in Chimps, Bonobos, and Us — NANMYKEL.COM

Sex and Gender: Diversity in Chimps, Bonobos, and Us — NANMYKEL.COM

Originally posted on annieasksyou…: Photo by Keith Lobo on Pexels.com Frans de Waal is a Dutch biologist and primatologist who thinks humans have some silly ideas/constructs about sex and gender. He’s written a number of books, most recently Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist. I heard him express his strong opinions on Alan… Sex and Gender: Diversity in Chimps, Bonobos, and Us…

[nanmykel]

Do Bonobos Embarrass You?

Do Bonobos Embarrass You?

This, from Three Quarks Daily: The Gendered Ape, Essay 6: Those Embarrassing Bonobos! POSTED ON MONDAY, OCT 17, 2022 2:15AM BY FRANS DE WAAL Editor’s Note: Frans de Waal’s new book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, has generated some controversy and misunderstanding. He will address these issues in a series of short essays which will be published at 3QD and can all be seen…

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[alainguillotpodcast]

525 Frans de Waal: biology offers no justification for gender inequalities

https://www.alainguillot.com/frans-de-waal Frans de Waal is biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. His latest book is Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3Pyoi1o

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[maaarine]

a few books organized by themes (click through for excerpts)

books by iconic women

A Room of One’s Own (Virginia Woolf, 1929)

Revolution From Within (Gloria Steinem, 1992)

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relationships

🚨 [MUST-READ] 🚨 Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Lundy Bancroft, 2002)

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality (Jane Ward, 2020)

All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership (Darcy Lockman, 2019)

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broader look at misogyny

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Kate Manne, 2017)

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Caroline Criado-Perez, 2019)

Masculine Domination (Pierre Bourdieu, 1998)

Right-Wing Women (Andrea Dworkin, 1983)

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biology

Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World (Elinor Cleghorn, 2021)

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Frans de Waal, 2022)

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for the "I don't like to read" crowd (graphic non-fiction)

Fruit of Knowledge (Liv Strömquist, 2014)

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but what about men??????

The End of Manhood: A Book for Men of Conscience (John Stoltenberg, 1993)

Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Niobe Way, 2011)

Looking for good feminist books can you recommend me some please 🙏

there's an index of all the books I've posted on my blog, where you'll find feminist titles, and links to excerpts

maaarine.tumblr.com/tagged/bookindex

[uartslibraries]

Different : gender through the eyes of a primatologist

/ Frans de Waal

 QP81.5 .W335 2022

[6464quincy]

Are Males Naturally Dominant?

Editor’s Note: Frans de Waal’s new book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, has generated some controversy and misunderstanding. Continue reading Are Males Naturally Dominant?