"Women are catty and talk too much." "Women are emotional." "Women are bad at math." "Women are gentle and delicate." "Women are naturally nurturing." "She's pretty so she's probably not too bright."
Additionally, "Men are sex fiends." "Men can't express emotion." "Men don't understand women." "Men are naturally violent." "Men are afraid of commitment."
Socially prescribed gender roles can go to hell. They all suck.
Ahh yes those classic ones...very vague stereotypes but with tiny bits of truth embedded in them. Aside from the bits of truth totally bonkers.
So for instance women are definitely better at communicating emotion then men are. The emotions are largely the same and felt in slightly different but equally significant ways. The difference is that women have a superhighway connecting the two sides of the brain allowing those emotions to generally be expressed in a more communicative way whereas men have a country lane connecting the two sides of the brain and thus the inability to express in an equally communicative way.
Another classic is about women and men and how they navigate. For women the key factors are landmarks. Ask a woman how to get to a certain location and she will more likely use landmark such as a geographical feature or a significant building or sign or something like that. Ask a man and you will typically get a more direction oriented response such as head north for 5 blocks. Brain scans reveal that brain activity in women is equally active as men when doing navigation/geography/spacial tasks but the activity is decentralized into several areas. In men its focused in a single area.
I've written whole essays on this stuff so I could go on forever. But the key thing is...in any proper gender discussion where you start to bring in some of the really interesting (to me anyways) research its pretty clear that there are advantages and distavantages for both genders in any task that they do. Men will, structurally, be better at some tasks and women will be in the same way better at others and these differences tend to be extremely complimentary.
So even if we use say the classic stereotype that women are more emotional...thats not something to truly look down on and certainly feminity shouldn't be something looked down on either. Being able to communicate emotions more effectively would be handy for me sometimes...but I struggle with that while women around me find it very easy. That is based on a stereotype but its frankly a very real and structural difference.
And of course everyone is different so what I've laid out above is general. I know some men who are definitely more openly and outwardly emotional and dramatic than some women.
Also...to be on topic...the new SyFy name sucks
