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Gender and Society - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Being a mother is a woman’s telos
        
        So, gender roles are natural and designed by God. Men and women are different but equal – their roles are complementary and equally important
  - - - The idea that gender roles are natural is just a psychological manipulation created by men to control women
        
        Telling women that being housewives is their ‘natural’ role that the omnipotent creator of the universe has designed for them – is just a persuasive and a powerful tool of manipulation
- - - - So, women have an important and valued role in Christianity
        
        So, Christianity cannot be sexist
  - - - So, when the Church say they like Mary and therefore can’t be sexist – this is a bit like a slave owner saying they can’t be racist because they like their obedient slaves
- - - - Women who seem to lack a maternal instinct – tend to be those who were neglected as children
        
        This suggests that the so-called ‘maternal instinct’ is actually something taught – and if a girl is neglected and thus not taught this ‘instinct’, then she is more likely to neglect her children later in life
        
        Oakley also interviewed housewives and found that many of them were unhappy in their role
        
        So, being a housewife and mother clearly isn’t biologically determined – it’s not the ‘natural’ role for a female
  - - - He claims that there could be a biological basis for gender to some degree
        
        For example, in the womb male babies have much more prenatal testosterone in them, and in adult life, males have much more testosterone than female
        
        Testosterone could be responsible for men being more competitive, obsessive, aggressive, etc.