Gender is a social power structure rather than a genetic trait.

Evidence

Continuing to take stock of reality, endeavoring to ascertain the instant of symbolic crystallization, I very naturally found myself on the threshold of Jungian psychology. European civilization is characterized by the presence, at the heart of what Jung calls the collective unconscious, of an archetype: an expression of the bad instincts, of the darkness inherent in every ego, of the uncivilized savage, the Negro who slumbers in every white man. And Jung claims to have found in uncivilized peoples the same psychic structure that his diagram portrays. Personally, I think that Jung has deceived himself. Moreover, all the peoples that he has known–whether the Pueblo Indians of Arizona or the Negroes of Kenya in British East Africa–have had more or less traumatic contacts with the white man. I said earlier that in his Salavinizations52 the young Antillean is never black; and I have tried to show what this phenomenon corresponds to. Jung locates the collective unconscious in the inherited cerebral matter. But the collective unconscious, without our having to fall back on the genes, is purely and simply the sum of prejudices, myths, collective attitudes of a given group. It is taken for granted, to illustrate, that the Jews who have settled in Israel will produce in less than a hundred years a collective unconscious different from the ones that they had had before 1945 in the countries which they were forced to leave. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Intelligence is a product of environment and experience that is forged, not inherited; it is malleable, not fixed. — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 54 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Feminism’s meaning evolved from female qualities to a theory of sex equality. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 560; The desire to provide is not an innate male instinct — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 225; The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664 (+14 more)

Related

• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. (similarity 0.86)
• Gender is constructed meaning assigned to sex, not given by biology (similarity 0.79)
• Femininity is an artificial, inculcated product rather than a natural instinct (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #corroborates (0.60)
• Biological determinism is used to excuse structural inequality. #complicates (0.50)
• Intelligence is malleable and shaped by environment, not fixed by heredity #corroborates (0.50) — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 54