Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged?

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Think some of this can just be about plain ole chemistry. I'm petite in stature, and have been told I'm feminine, so 'alpha' types tend to be attracted to me. But, my fiance is somewhat of a nerd, too...I haven't really ever been attracted to mere outward hotness. Not really a fan of the terms alpha and beta, because they are so restrictive.

Now there is such a thing as female nature and male nature...men and women do have innate differences beyond just outward appearances, but not all women or men respond in the exact same way to different things that occur in their lives, simply because of their gender. Environment, culture, nature, etc all make us who we 'are,' IMO.

True, we have evolved a certain way for thousands of years.

True, men and women, generally speaking, have differences, physical and in personality.

However,

you have to remember that "thousands of years" or even "tens of thousands of years"
is just a blink of the eye in the big picture of evolution.

In recorded human history, yes, there were traditional male and female roles for a reason.

So what?

In the last few hundred years, humanity made an epic leap forward,
and in the last 50 years, the leap was even more accelerated,
and in the last 20 years....you get the picture.

Our technology and our society is now evolving faster than any of us can keep up with.

Once, we had prehensile tails so that we could hang from trees.

We don't need those anymore.

And we are now at a point where not only will it do us no harm to challenge our gender stereotypes,
(amongst other things),

but if we fail to,

we may not survive as a species,
or at least, may not evolve as quickly as we should,
or at the very least, may not thrive as well as we might have.

Example:  everyone is wringing their hands about how to best deal with ISIS.

The Kurds have highly-trained, entirely female forces that are notoriously savage in their combat,
and although they are a small force, they have it right:

They've found ISIS' Achilles Heel:

To be killed by a woman is considered the ultimate shame and dishonour.

ISIS don't care about being martyred in combat;

but heaven forbid they die at the hand of a woman.

The point is:  the situation has EVOLVED.

Women are the BEST soldiers to fight ISIS.



Just one example.