I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if genetics have something to do with it.
I wouldn’t be surprised either, although I don’t trust similar observations about my own family as evidence for it (since they’re almost by definition the people culturally closest to me).
I was going to ask what kind of ideas about gender roles dominate in the area where you grew up, exploring another theory, but then I remembered that a lot of my current friends didn’t grow up anywhere near me either. Although I suppose they all made a choice to live here now, so maybe it does have some meaning after all.
I wouldn’t be surprised either, although I don’t trust similar observations about my own family as evidence for it (since they’re almost by definition the people culturally closest to me).
I was going to ask what kind of ideas about gender roles dominate in the area where you grew up, exploring another theory, but then I remembered that a lot of my current friends didn’t grow up anywhere near me either. Although I suppose they all made a choice to live here now, so maybe it does have some meaning after all.