Our post last week covered the biological basis for gender, but as we know, biology is only one small part of human identity. The psychological and social factors that mold your internal sense of gender most likely have a much greater impact on how you construct your life. And all of these biopsychosocial factors are deeply intertwined. Your biology informs how society perceives you from the moment you’re born and the doctors slap you with a gendered label (or even before as many parents opt to learn the gender before birth). The subtle (or not so subtle in some cases)…
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Thousands of years before anyone understood the brain and the mechanics of perception, the Greek philosopher Plato came up with his famous Allegory of the Cave to represent how humans think about and perceive reality and truth. In the allegory, prisoners spend their whole life chained up in a cave, facing a wall with a fire at their back. Many objects, animals, and people pass in front of the fire behind them and cast shadows on the wall of the cave. The prisoners see these shadows and give each form different names. Eventually, a prisoner is released from the cave,…
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