Originally posted by: Heisenberg17_
And evolution also throws up a lot of dead ends, I put these social engineering/gender studies programs in the same category, sure you can try and raise women to like effeminate men, not very likely to succeed. As for what the sexual preferences of men and women will be like in the distant future, I never made any prediction, but it is an undeniable fact that what we are today is shaped by millions of years of evolution, and I don't see this changing anytime soon. Despite a massive concerted effort to destroy gender roles and gender/sex itself, most straight women in general are still not attracted to effeminate men, nor straight men attracted to masculine women.
Well my reply was in response your claim "No amount of social engineering or gender studies woke bollocks will overturn sexual partner preferences shaped by millions of years of evolution."
That is a prediction, in fact a pretty extreme one. Now you are saying it with some qualification, "You don't see this changing anytime soon!" I agree with your second statement depending on how you define *soon*. First one was indeed a very extreme prediction.
Your last sentence is kinda funny, like everyone is out there to destroy gender roles for fun and destroy *sex*. Not sure how sex will be destroyed since it is mostly a biologically assigned identity but anyway toxic aspects of gender roles need to go. And that is not happening for the first time, it has happened before as well and will continue to happen. The effort is to not let gender based roles and stereotyping badly affect individuals who don't fit into the *societal construction* of gender and to be mindful of what gender variations exist and how it affects/is affected by our society. If that makes women like effeminate men or men like masculine women, so be it.