Should Gender Stereotypes be challenged?

[Homeless Nutter]

[...]2. It can be proved by basic observation that it is not society that dictated how men and women should function through stereotypes. Look at some animals, like say - dogs, no one taught them how boy dogs should behave or how girl dogs should behave - they have no society to impose "stereotypes" on them, yet they project distinctive characteristics that categorize them as a male and female.

Wow - that's some bullsh*t you've churned out here. I guess you've never seen a bunch of dogs. Maybe you should talk about things you have some idea about.  I'm guessing you got your idea of what dogs are like from "Lady And The Tramp"...

Firstly - most dogs (as well as other domesticated animals) DO have "stereotypes" imposed on them, mainly - by humans, among whom they live and who created them, through genetic engineering. Dogs act in all sorts of ways, depending on how their owners breed and train them - that includes their sexual behaviour.

Secondly - most dogs display behaviours associated with either gender - depending on their place in the social hierarchy and other circumstances. Female dogs can and do hump other dogs, or people's legs, or dominate other dogs through physical force. They also hunt and "provide for their family". Male dogs - especially the "beta" ones - often behave in a manner we would call "feminine", by submitting to aggressive alpha males/females (by lying down and refusing to fight) and even allow themselves to be mounted. Same goes for wild canines, like wolfs.

Your whole idea, that gender stereotypes are fine, because we developed them during our evolution is completely non sequitur. You know what else we evolved, during the more primitive times of our species? Xenophobia, tribalism, slavery and racism - so maybe we should just give those KKK guys a  break, because surely - it's not their fault that they want to live in racially monolithic society. That's just how their ancestors used to live for hundreds of thousands of years, back when anyone who didn't look like you was most likely an enemy. So who are we to judge, right? Let them harass black people and latinos and kick them out of their towns, because dogs (as well as most other social  animals) tend to rip outsiders to shreds, don't they?

Or maybe - just maybe - we can control our animalistic instincts, which at this point cause more harm then good?