I like to wonder what would be different about me if I were a man and had been raised like one.
Keep in mind that, like all normative stereotypes, "raised like one" is more a theory than a reality. I got my cooking background entirely from my father (my mother is a fine person, but cannot cook to save her life), and ballet was his preferred outing into the city while I was growing up. (Kate's been improving my background in musical theater; I still need to introduce her to the classic ballets.)
Granted, nobody would call my family typical. Still, it illustrates the problem with these sorts of contrafactual questions: to get a meaningful result, you actually have to get pretty deeply into the background details. Which, I suppose, is not so different from designing any other fictional character...
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Keep in mind that, like all normative stereotypes, "raised like one" is more a theory than a reality. I got my cooking background entirely from my father (my mother is a fine person, but cannot cook to save her life), and ballet was his preferred outing into the city while I was growing up. (Kate's been improving my background in musical theater; I still need to introduce her to the classic ballets.)
Granted, nobody would call my family typical. Still, it illustrates the problem with these sorts of contrafactual questions: to get a meaningful result, you actually have to get pretty deeply into the background details. Which, I suppose, is not so different from designing any other fictional character...