Considering the impact of diet on physical, mental, and aesthetic well-being, the author sought to create a comprehensive picture of Dietetics - the art of living - through four books. However, as he wrote, it became clear that something important w...
What we are exploring: How is the connection between social roles manifested depending on the sexual characteristics of a man or woman?
What's new: What are the grounds for the biblical version of gender identity?
What we will learn: How are the social roles of men and women connected with their purpose and why is the role of women unique?
1. The differences between males and females are brought into public life so extensively [quantitatively widespread, ed. [author], that in this way a hidden substitution is carried out: practically any aspect of culture, any aspect of human experience appears before us in an inextricable connection with sexual characteristics - whether this concerns the style of clothing, social roles and even ways of expressing feelings and realizing sexual desire" (Bem S. 2004) [1].
2. Thus, the essence of humanistic disagreement with gender polarization is that it turns men and women into gender caricatures, depriving them of the opportunity to express their human potential (ibid.).
3. Inextricably linked to gender. Gender studies expert Sandra Bem studies how social roles are influenced by the gender characteristics of men and women. These differences are ingrained in our culture, influencing the way people live and behave based on their gender. This influence especially affects how people dress, act socially, express their feelings in everyday life and romantic relationships, and behave in sexual situations, whether within or outside of marriage. As a result, men and women (including husbands and wives) often focus more on what divides them than on what unites them. According to Sandra Bem, this cultural development "turns men and women into gender caricatures, depriving them of the opportunity to fully express their human potential" (V fr. 17. 5, 6). The situation has worsened due to the expanded capabilities of modern science.
* Sandra Bem (1944–2014) was an American psychologist known for her work in the fields of androgyny and gender studies. She was a professor of psychology and director of the Women's Studies Program at Cornell University until her retirement in 2010. Her research focused on gender schema theory, sexuality, and clinical psychology. Her 1993 book Lenses of Gender: Transforming Our Views of Gender Inequality was named the best book in psychology that year by the Association of American Publishers.
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4. Intervention of science in gender roles. Now, trying to dominate each other, men and women are using science as an arbitrator.
• "It is documented how, through the joint efforts of medicine, sexology, psychiatry and psychology, a scientific and medical substantiation was obtained for such a cultural requirement, according to which bodily sexual characteristics have their gender psychological equivalent" (ibid., author's italics).
What does this mean? This means that, depending on gender, a human's psyche is structured according to the male gender or the female gender. This provides even more grounds for division in relationships, which leads to competition between men and women in all spheres of their lives. Which is what we observe in the modern Western world. This raises questions that affect self-love.
