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This is what I said above: ‘IMHO what is ’maleness ’ or ‘masculinity’ is socially and culturally conditioned and how individuals respond to the conditioning.
‘Enforcing and repression’ of gender roles are social and cultural concepts and have nothing to do with the biological facts of gender.
Your response stops at 'responds to conditioning'. I disagree with that as it is too reductive and then that which follows as it is not true. Biology plays a role in culture. What I am willing to say is that the role is not yet well understood, has been essentialized reductively for millennia, is still reduced and misapprehended and is likely many roles overlapping in the genome relating to many selective pressures. Then some human beings are outside normative biology altogether. What's normative is also questionable. But none of this means maleness or masculinity are arbitrary. It simply means we're not fully expressed. We never can be. that's being human