"Reason" and "Sensiblity" in Mary Wollstonecraft's work

[seabeyond]

2. whats natural, whats taught, whats gender. what we create. how far we move

from our true self, to conform to society.

i have literally had arguments with men, that i MUST be emotional in sex. because i am a woman. biology said so. literally insist, demand, that i own that. i might of thought that is what i was suppose to be as a woman, since from my first breath, i was created as that in all ways. and still. it never jived. regardless of me being very very clear, (not to mention bringing an intellectual argument, that means prostitutes MUST be emotionally connected with every john? really?) that sex has no connection to relationship. it is sex. what a body does.

yet. i am told, repeatedly, i am NOT allowed to be that.

same with romance. not a romantic bone in me. eeeew. clueless. meh.... yet mother, middle brother and hubby are.

i can go on and on.

emotiona, non... pragmatic, non.... logical, fuzzy.... these are not gender characteristics. we give caricatures for people to live.