Category: Androgyny-Based Gender Theory

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team About 12,000 years ago, humans made their greatest cultural shift in the history of our 300,000-year-old species: the Neolithic revolution and the advent of large-scale agriculture heralded the beginning of our patriarchal culture. Humanity traded life in large groups for life in heteronormative nuclear families, based on the father/mother/child…

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We know that patriarchy (see AGTRT-BA9) has its roots in the Neolithic revolution, 12,000 years ago. With the start of large-scale agriculture, a different view of humanity and the world based on possession emerged: humanity owns the planet, and the man owns the woman (see also AGTRT-BA1). But before…

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Gender and sexuality diversity (LGBTTI) is still often portrayed as “a flaw of nature” or “contrary to Darwinian evolutionary biology.” This has all sorts of undesirable consequences for the public debate on gender, where co-essentialists and essentialists have become embroiled in a trench war. All the while, modern evolutionary…

Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team This article first appeared on The Correspondent website on Nov. 16, 2021 Forget Mars, Venus and Jordan Peterson. Men also have a feminine side, and women also have a masculine side. Indeed, the science saying that we survived as a species precisely because of smaller gender differences and equal…