Lumifer comments on The horrifying importance of domain knowledge - Less Wrong
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Partially. You can't just ignore the biological basis and declare gender roles to be arbitrary -- they are not.
True - but in the context of the top post, you can and should be looking at cases where gender roles are non-traditional. After all, this is a post about edge cases and overgeneralized beliefs. Gender roles are an excellent example of arbitrary rules being over applied. This applies both to cases when we are dealing with other members of our own culture, and with members of other cultures.