I'll never forget how I felt the day my gender studies teacher made the claim that there are absolutely no differences between men and women. I looked around, shocked at the proposition, and wondering if anyone else felt the same.
For most of the semester, we had it pounded into our heads that all distinctions between those of different races, geographical locations or habitats were really meaningless, and that it was merely society that tried to push that there were actual differences.
Perhaps she was right, we all thought. Maybe we had really just bought into society’s definitions and desire to separate. Perhaps it was racist to claim that generally speaking black men were taller than asian men. And sexist to feel that men were physically stronger