EN 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Binary, Xyy Syndrome, Muscle Tone
Document Summary
Sometimes an extra x for male (xxy) can be things associated with femininity. Xxx (hyper female syndrome) weak muscle tone, not much body hair. Xyy (serial killer chromosome) extra y males are aggressive etc. Behaviour cannot be determined by having an extra y or extra x . The narrative of science is just that it"s narrative; not true. Genotype possibility of things that could happen. E. g. egg & sperm when creating fetus; people think the egg is passive and just waits for them sperm however the egg participates in its own penetration. 10 of the course kit my weight problem it"s not my fault can be her fault but also can. *everything is nature + nurture; can"t pick one. People used to assume just because you"re a man, you"re masculine, attracted to women; there are many variations e. g. park reference with the blocks of animals that you have to match (sometimes gets a weird animal)