I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can’t even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what’s between their legs.
okay but, assuming that things have to be gendered because they tend to be, do we derive social value from this particular configuration or from the existence of a default? there are plenty of cultures that acknowledge gender roles beyond man and woman. you’re right inasmuch as I can’t think of any society that has existed entirely absent some sort of system of gender roles, but to call the western gender binary universal is a bit of a stretch.