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@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Gender also affects the expectations that the brain has for the environment it r
On the social side, gender involves our [habitus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology)): our presentation, our mannerisms and behaviors, how we communicate, how we react, what our expectations are from life, and the roles that we fulfill as we walk through life. The author Susan Stryker described habitus it in her book [Transgender History](https://smile.amazon.com/Transgender-History-second-Todays-Revolution/dp/158005689X): On the social side, gender involves our [habitus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitus_(sociology)): our presentation, our mannerisms and behaviors, how we communicate, how we react, what our expectations are from life, and the roles that we fulfill as we walk through life. The author Susan Stryker described habitus it in her book [Transgender History](https://smile.amazon.com/Transgender-History-second-Todays-Revolution/dp/158005689X):
> A lot of habitus involves manipulating our secondary sex characteristics to communicate to others our own sense of who we feel we are---whether we sway our hips, talk with our hands, bulk up at the gym, grow out our hair, wearclothing with a neckline that emphasizes our cleavage, shave our armpits, allow stubble to be visible on our faces, or speak with a rising or falling inflection at the end of sentences. Often these ways of moving and styling have become so internalize that we think of them as natural even though---given that they are all things we've learned through observation and practice---they can be better understood as culturally acquired "second nature." > A lot of habitus involves manipulating our secondary sex characteristics to communicate to others our own sense of who we feel we are---whether we sway our hips, talk with our hands, bulk up at the gym, grow out our hair, wearclothing with a neckline that emphasizes our cleavage, shave our armpits, allow stubble to be visible on our faces, or speak with a rising or falling inflection at the end of sentences. Often these ways of moving and styling have become so internalized that we think of them as natural even though---given that they are all things we've learned through observation and practice---they can be better understood as culturally acquired "second nature."
Indeed, these are all cultural factors; things which have developed within the population over time. Regardless of being essentially "made up", they are still strongly gendered and a person tends to connect to the gendered habitus of their internal self, without even realizing they are doing it. When we are denied access to those social aspects, this results in discomfort with one's social position in life. Indeed, these are all cultural factors; things which have developed within the population over time. Regardless of being essentially "made up", they are still strongly gendered and a person tends to connect to the gendered habitus of their internal self, without even realizing they are doing it. When we are denied access to those social aspects, this results in discomfort with one's social position in life.