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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by SoftTalker on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:06PM (#33675293)
> Manliness, how much a "man" someone is, is a huge spectrum and it's socially defined. Likewise, how "womanly" someone is is a spectrum, and also cultural.

This doesn't seem to be anything new. Go back 100 years, or more, there were manly women and effeminate men.

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Re:The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature by n4r9 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:30PM (#33675507)
It's not at all new. Many Native American cultural traditions had a sophisticated gender fluidity: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/11/two-spirit-peo...

In many ways the gender rigidity of late 20th century western society is an exception in human history.

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