re: Famed atheist and biologist calls the idea of more than two genders “utter nonsense”

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.in fact women, both biological and in terms of gender, have shifted their gender significantly in the last 100 years or so. It wasn't that long ago that an unmarried woman with no kids who worked for a living and wore pants was considered strange...by both men and women. Men have also undergone a significant shift in their gender roles....society would have been almost shocked to find a father in the 1950's who could change a diaper as well as his kids mother...anyone who has had a child since about 1990 knows this ain't the case anymore. Gender roles are fluid, regardless of what anyone would like to think otherwise. It is acceptable today, for example, for a man to stay home and take care of the house and kids while his wife earns a living. Most of us will make some snide comment about this but it wasn't that long ago that it was unheard of and almost impossible for a woman to pull off. It is very common today for a woman to be an integral part of a families income when it wasn't that long ago that this was something almost reserved exclusively for men.

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