What can apes can teach us about gender? | Frans de Waal

Drawing on decades of observing other primates, especially our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, world renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores what we know of biological sex differences and of the role of culture and socialization, and argues that gender goes beyond a social construct.
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  • @Simpaulme
    @Simpaulme2 жыл бұрын

    De Waal has straightforward answers to the questions!

  • @katynewt
    @katynewt2 жыл бұрын

    What other primates can teach us is that we've lost the plot with this labelling game.

  • @JevonMusicGroup
    @JevonMusicGroup Жыл бұрын

    When did Matt Walsh get a British accent?!

  • @bo_trilly

    @bo_trilly

    Жыл бұрын

    Wait, why are you likening the interviewer to Matt Walsh? Did I miss something?

  • @JevonMusicGroup

    @JevonMusicGroup

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bo_trilly Yes. They look a lot alike.

  • @Diamoondust

    @Diamoondust

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@JevonMusicGroup not really tbh lol

  • @DoggieFosters
    @DoggieFosters2 жыл бұрын

    On labeling: There was a time when we were consciously working toward completely accepting "gender non-conforming" behaviour. Freeing little girls & boys, men & women, gay & straight from restrictive sex roles & sex stereotypes (aka gender). This was called gender abolitionism. NOW, gender identity ideology has been a regressive leap backwards...decades & decades backwards. Sex is male & female. Regressive gender is "masculine" & "feminine". When "woman" is redefined from the material reality, a simple state of being female with the needs & challenges inherent, to a subjective, unfalsifiable, counterfactual sexist idea in a man's head, we are undermining _everything_ we had fought for. We are sterilizing overwhelmingly same-sex attracted & autistic children because they do not fit these once-again rigid gender categories. My god people, wake up! Genderism is 180° flip upside-down & backwards for both gay rights & women's rights. Also, "No evidence" of perpetrating violence: In UK prisons, 3% of women are incarcerated for sex crimes, 19% of men, 50% of trans-identified males (aka men professing a special gender "identity".) Either there is a problem with sexual violence among this population (we know there are extreme levels of paraphilia, and paraphilias cluster) OR in this ideology, predatory males have found a delightful cover as sacred-caste who cannot be questioned & an easy way to access their targets.

  • @Pau-tc9wj

    @Pau-tc9wj

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you for pointing this out. I'm totally with you but couldnt express it like you have.

  • @bo_trilly

    @bo_trilly

    Жыл бұрын

    As per your first rant, you can have whatever opinions you like. I'm both gay & female and I super disagree with you. But as per the study you cited regarding 50% trans women committing sex crimes, that's false. The count of trans people in prisons doesn't even include trans people with Gender Recognition Certificates (which in itself takes around 5 years to get), nor does it count trans people who haven't informed the prison that they're trans, nor does it differentiate between trans men and trans women. It only counts trans prisoners who have had a case conference, something that is more likely for long-term prisoners because it's not worth the time & effort for a short stay. Long-term prisoners are usually the ones who commit more egregious offences, like sexual violence, because those hold higher sentences. Long-term prisoners are the ones having case conferences. The data is highly skewed towards violent/sexual offence.

  • @DoggieFosters

    @DoggieFosters

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bo_trilly Learn to read. I did not contend 50% of all trans-identified males are predators. I reported the findings that 50% of trans-identified males in UK prison are there for convictions for sexual predation. Men, no matter their pseudoreligious claims of special "gender" souls, do not belong in female safe spaces. Full stop. The data does differentiate between trans 8d males & trans id females - despite the best efforts extremists to obf7scate & corrupt proper data collection. You talk a good game, ideologue. Good day.

  • @furtwangler5283
    @furtwangler52832 жыл бұрын

    "Everyone who deviates from the accepted labels is in trouble" The opposite is true. Anyone who fails to endorse the latest deviation is accused of 'hate crime'.

  • @anecdotal_mattybs5435

    @anecdotal_mattybs5435

    2 жыл бұрын

    You’re misunderstanding what he says. Aka, you’re making a political point off a segment that has nothing to do with what you say.

  • @kartickshaw5652

    @kartickshaw5652

    Жыл бұрын

    Only accused not killed

  • @afusa1765

    @afusa1765

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s what you perceive because of the media you consume. A quick reality check would allow you to realise that those who are in favour of deviations from traditional standards/values actually make up the minority of the world’s population.

  • @jgp8314
    @jgp83142 ай бұрын

    We are primates. How do you miss that?

  • @ilirllukaci5345
    @ilirllukaci53452 жыл бұрын

    What is equal? I don't understand.

  • @anteeko
    @anteeko2 жыл бұрын

    Not being from english culture I am always fascinated by the obsession to label everything in tiny little boxes. From my point of view this obsession seems to be particularly high in the english culture.

  • @toobalkain

    @toobalkain

    Жыл бұрын

    that's not an English thing, our mind is wired to categorize things, much easier to operate.

  • @anteeko

    @anteeko

    Жыл бұрын

    @@toobalkain "that's not an English thing, our mind is wired to categorize things, much easier to operate." I find that tendancy more extreme in the english culture.

  • @Diamoondust

    @Diamoondust

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@anteeko That doesn't make it correct lol

  • @fluorescentadolescent2640

    @fluorescentadolescent2640

    6 ай бұрын

    Id like to know where you from where this doesn't happens lol

  • @anteeko

    @anteeko

    6 ай бұрын

    latin languages don't do it as much@@fluorescentadolescent2640

  • @abitofapotato
    @abitofapotato2 жыл бұрын

    What are can apes?

  • @roberttaylor5997

    @roberttaylor5997

    2 жыл бұрын

    . Small pieces of bread or pastry with a savoury topping, for example smoked salmon can apes.

  • @duckcensorship7446
    @duckcensorship74462 жыл бұрын

    They can tell us that there are only two of them!! That and Banana's are awesome!

  • @masterjordanva

    @masterjordanva

    9 ай бұрын

    Bro, did you not catch the drift?

  • @JonathanSwiftUK
    @JonathanSwiftUK2 жыл бұрын

    Last could of thousand years you say? Sounds like organised religion, Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Which religions, if any, around in the last few thousand years, also subjugated women, and more importantly which did not. If it was happening before Christianity that was from Judaism, but that took some of its doctrines from Babylonia and Zoroastrianism - it's accepted that Judaism and thus Christianity, and Islam, too a lot of their beliefs from this,

  • @Simpaulme
    @Simpaulme2 жыл бұрын

    Why do you both speak as if humans are NOT primates?

  • @tommasog7596

    @tommasog7596

    8 ай бұрын

    they are literally saying the opposite