[Isoverity]

Quote:

Originally Posted by The One Who

Genes, organs, whatever. 'Sex' is biological/physiological, whereas gender is a much more constructed sociological thing.

Being emotional (which is also another social construct that women are more emotional than men), is not why there are more females diagnosed with depression. It is because women are more likely to tell someone and get it diagnosed in the first place. Men cannot be seen as weak or as needing help, because that is how they have been gendered. Having a penis doesn't make them like that, their socio-cultural gender identity have made them like that.

Its absolutely not a social construct that women are more emotional than men - just like its not a social construct that men are stronger. Anecdotally people can see its true and piles of studies just confirm it. Women are oceans of hormones where men are ponds. One reason society is so dysfunctional is people try to make false things true just based on their desire to recast reality in ways more suitable to their egos. People make interpretations of society based on how they want to see it and then repeat pseudo-scientific conclusions that they have never really investigated but assume are true.

Below is an article that I just saw today. it mentions one study but you can find gobs more:

"Women naturally more susceptible to stress"

Women are twice as vulnerable to stress as men because of greater sensitivity to a substance produced at times of anxiety, new research suggests.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...to-stress.html