There’s something that’s intrigued me on and off for a long time.

Often times you can tell whether something has been handwritten by a man or a woman, just from the shapes of the letters and the spacing between them. Or something like that. I’m not actually fully sure what or why or how. It’s not like boys and girls are explicitly taught to write differently. It just… yeah. One of those things.

@billgoats not quite handwriting, but very close - iris marion young's essay does a great job of explaining how women develop bodily movement styles through the cultures they're raised in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwing_Like_a_Girl

(specifically about the problem of how people acquire body styles/comportments without being explicitly taught them)

Throwing Like a Girl - Wikipedia

@vga256 Huh, interesting!
@billgoats it vexed philosophy/psychology for 100+ years - not an easy topic!
@vga256 I mean, anything involving women vexes any male-dominated field. Because what even ~is~ a woman? Are women real? Better to not find out. :S
@billgoats i was referring to the problem of non-instructive skill acquisition.
@vga256 Ahhh, sorry! I should probably go have that nap I've been thinking of having instead of misreading things on the internet ;)