PHIL 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cultural Universal, Rationality
10 Apr 2018
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Biology: chromosomes (most common: xx female, xy male) (less common: (xo female sterile) (xxy) (xyy) they get two ys from their fathers, hormones (estrogen, testosterone) in general we all have both. Hormones are a black box to medicine (we don"t know much about them) what the feuds looks like: sexual organs. There are enormous variations among individuals: secondary sexual characters (facial hair, breasts, personal identification: generally the terminology now is cis-gendered: all these things align with their gender. Trans-gendered: one or more of (1-4) doesn"t align with cultural gender identifications. Sub category (trans-sexual): identifies with the opposite gender. True hermaphrodites (sex blended) (one testis, one ovary) Sometimes they do surgery to fix the baby, and make them one gendered. Cultural identifications linked to biological and social traits. And there are aggressive and completive women, and caring and co-operative men. All cultures assign different tasks to different women and men. Cultural universal, women have babies, and care for infants.
