Gender Stereotypes

I was hearing a conversation amongst colleagues bout how a girl would react in particular situations, like say being cheated on. It's funny because there's basically a behavior template for "appropriate" responses to particular situations. Given how its internalized, I would not be surprised if the girl responded in that precise same way.

Of course, what I am thinking about is stereotyped behavior. Guys often talk about how girls would behave, and it irks me when they're right. Are they really all that predictable? Yet, it is true, and ultimately it's the social license that helps people behave in those specific ways. Then comes the inevitable spurious attribution when the people conclude that girls are just wired that way.

Same old nature vs nurture debate that I shall not belabor. Sadly, part of the problem of why gender stereotypes exist is that both sides just tacitly conspire to uphold them one way or another. I can see the social purpose of such predictable responses (heck it used to be fashionable to faint) in that it ultimately allowed people to get laid and fire off their useless spawn, but it just seems like a selling out of individuality in favor of something that I can only classify as animal behavior.