Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged?

[paulpablo]

This could be why you didn't notice a different in male/female aggression if your cats weren't allowed to roam or have huge territory and were neutered.

Kind of implies my point though huh. Human beings don't roam outside like wild animals establishing territories either. We've been living in a civilized manner for so long. You can't honestly tell me you think all men are more aggressive and all women are more nurturing. You'll notice it varies among genders because people develope their own personalities and we are ruled be so much more than just hormones.

I didn't make any points about humans but if your point is that humans don't roam and establish territories because we've been living in a civilized manner I'd have to disagree due to the amount of war and territorial disputes in the world, from school yards, bar brawls, gang warfare to armed conflicts.

No I don't think all men are more aggressive and all women are more nurturing.

My original point was that I think male cats are more aggressive, I can't prove that scientifically because I don't even know how you'd measure aggression scientifically.  And it's unclear how you would establish what one unit of aggression would be.  A woman might hit her child 4 times every week with light spanking or a man might punch a man to death once in his lifetime.  I don't know who the most aggressive is, I don't know which the most significant is. Taking this into consideration it may be wrong to say male cats are generally more aggressive if you take into consideration a look might be considered to be aggressive and there's all kinds of little actions that may not be significant, they may be difficult to measure but they may still be considered to be acts of aggression.

All I know is that with cats the male cats do to a significant degree, display stereotypical aggressive male behaviour, marking out large pieces of territory, beating the shit out of each other, roaming for females, significant fights resulting in them both walking away limping, walking round with ripped up ears and scars.  Yeh if you don't allow them to go out and take their balls off they won't be as aggressive but they will still take up more territory than a female cat, generally.

I haven't really been keeping up with the thread so I have no clue what cats have to do with gender stereotypes but I have cats and have had many years experience dealing with all kinds of cats for years and what I've been talking about is what I've observed.