Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree

Re:Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree by influx on Monday June 26, 2017 @03:44AM (#14634827)

"In experiments, male adolescent monkeys also prefer to play with wheeled vehicles while the females prefer dolls — and their societies say nothing on the matter."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/22677-girls...

This suggests there may be something deeper than expectation from culture and society.

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Re:Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree by throwawaycopy on Monday June 26, 2017 @09:07AM (#14636436)

Monkeys don't have language and culture.

This study suggests nothing about the impact of culture and society on human individuals.

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Re:Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree by GhostVII on Monday June 26, 2017 @09:42AM (#14636701)

Isn't that the point? Monkeys don't have language and culture, but males and females still prefer different types of things, giving evidence to the argument that it is not simply culture influencing children's toy preferences

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Re:Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree by throwawaycopy on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:36AM (#14637592)

This is a study about monkeys. How does this and why should this apply to humans?

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Re:Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree by flukus on Monday June 26, 2017 @11:29PM (#14642376)

Because we both evolved from a distant ancestor, any behavior we share is very likely to be an evolutionary trait.

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