I think there's something to this, but also you've got to think about the cultural standards where "female" is considered "abnormal".
replye.g. you have "toys" and "girl toys". "clothes" and "girl clothes" and such. It's not everywhere or everything but there is a trend.
Yeah, a woman wearing pants to an office job became totally normal. A man wearing a dress or skirt would be assumed to be transitioning gender or wearing a costume.
replyWomen used to be arrested for wearing pants many places, and still kept doing it until it was normal and legal. I don’t think straight men had the same motivation to push for the right to wear skirts; if they did that would be normal too.
reply> also you've got to think about
replyWe really don’t.
And shouldn’t.
close one, you almost had to think about something there.
replyThat is the pattern. Rarely would you have a baby boy using a women's name. Broadly speaking there is a general stigma within society going the other direction then women adopting male things.
replyMarion Morrison was a definitive male role model.
replyA baby does not "adopt" their name, though. It is given to them.
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