The research article “Stepping Out of the Caveman’s Shadow: Nations’ Gender Gap Predicts Degree of Sex Differentiation in Mate Preferences” by Marcel Zentner and Klaudia Mitura demonstrated gender difference in mating preferences based on evolutionary roots would decline in gender-equal societies (Zentner & Mitura, 2012). Zentner and Klaudia focused on two theories for mate preferences of evolutionary origins and social structural. Evolutionary based on reproductive success, however, the article states the theory is limited and leads to assumptions and hypothesis. The social structure theory supports the more equal-gender a society is the gender difference in mates is on future life prediction. A piece of information I found interesting was the role family’s play into having mating preferences, such as developing the ideas of a good mate. Mating preferences to me were
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Since the ‘normal’ family ideas are men and women, rooting from the society circle the family is in or from religion, can lead to transphobia and the violence action that come from it. For example, “Gwen Araujo was beaten to death by four men who had sex with her discovered she was transgender” (Brown and Countryman Lecture 2/17/17). Discovering Human Sexuality concludes that the heterosexual male commits this crime because of the fear of being seeing as homosexual (LeVay, Baldwin, & Baldwin, 2015). The violence the male experience may reflect the family’s idea of a good mate. Furthermore, gender self-socialization theory of gender differences arises because of people who strongly identify with their collective gender. Gender difference correlates with people who “were content with their gender or felt pressure to avoid cross-sex behavior” (Pauletti, Cooper, Aults, Hodges, & Perry, 2015) supporting Levay et al. statement of male committing the crime because of
Since the ‘normal’ family ideas are men and women, rooting from the society circle the family is in or from religion, can lead to transphobia and the violence action that come from it. For example, “Gwen Araujo was beaten to death by four men who had sex with her discovered she was transgender” (Brown and Countryman Lecture 2/17/17). Discovering Human Sexuality concludes that the heterosexual male commits this crime because of the fear of being seeing as homosexual (LeVay, Baldwin, & Baldwin, 2015). The violence the male experience may reflect the family’s idea of a good mate. Furthermore, gender self-socialization theory of gender differences arises because of people who strongly identify with their collective gender. Gender difference correlates with people who “were content with their gender or felt pressure to avoid cross-sex behavior” (Pauletti, Cooper, Aults, Hodges, & Perry, 2015) supporting Levay et al. statement of male committing the crime because of