Nature and Nurture

What roles are available to women?

Wife/Mother, you really do not want one without the other.
In these roles, there are obvious attributes of Nurturer/Teacher, even the keeper of wisdom.
Our use of our sexuality does define us.
Celebrant
Prostitute

And what roles are available to men?

Husband/Father, you really do not want one without the other.
In these roles, there are obvious attributes of Provider/Protector.
Celebrant
Preyer

People do seem to be choosing celibacy as a viable option.
And sexual promiscuity is seen as virtuous in some arenas.

Our biology plays a huge part in what is available to us and we do ourselves great harm when we try to work against it.
The act of puberty comes at a time when a person has begun to understand and express their personhood, and then their body changes. For some people, it can seem almost like sabotage against their evolving personhood. And for others, it can seem to be in harmony with how they perceive themselves. Puberty is a very confusing time.

Social norms help people navigate puberty. How a person is nurtured at this time has a huge impact on who they become and how they view themselves. In the middle of puberty and the decade after, puberty does seem to be all-consuming. However, the further away I get from these years the less I am dictated by them. Opportunities arise to rewrite my firmware. Mistakes I have made in my puberty and the preceding years can be corrected, and desirable traits affirmed.
Without social norms, or sadly the adherence to perverse ones a person can be crippled as they transition through puberty into the adult gender of the childhood

Software is software. And hardware is hardware.

One of the biggest problems around puberty is the telling of young people that they can choose their gender but can not choose their attractions.
Your hardware is already written into every cell in your body, all one trillion of them. Your gender is fixed. The variances of how your gender manifests itself are large. And here is a primary problem. Many traits show themselves more dominant among the feminine or the masculine, but they are not exclusive to one or the other. Societies make the mistake of aligning a trait to a gender.

A software preference does not indicate a hardware bug.

Enjoying a predominantly female trait as a male does not mean you are software trapped inside the wrong hardware. The inverse is equally true. Expressing a predominantly male attribute does not mean you are software trapped inside the wrong hardware.
Equally, our attractions change over time, and we have control over them. We are capable of rewriting the software of our attractions.
There seems to sit another factor in the midst of the software and hardware, and I call it firmware. Firmware can get written by trauma, adventurers, stress, triumphs, and even a conversion. We can even activate and train ourselves and rewrite our firmware.

I am using computer terminology.

Hardware is obvious, DNA has coded us to be the physical form that we are, our nature.
Software is malleable, it is decision-based, and it is nurtured by others, ourselves, or our environment.
I place firmware as being between the two. Our subconscious, code that runs when we are not thinking about the code running. We can manipulate it if we choose to. But if we don’t, this firmware becomes our automatic reactions to the situations we find ourselves in.
We only have free will if we choose to engage it, otherwise, more and more of what we do will be our firmware in action and not our software.
So how does this all apply back to what is available for a woman and what is available to a man?
Sex, sexuality, and gender play a major role. Our gender/sex defined every cell in our body. We are bathed in a hormone bath as a function of our gender/sex. Yet there is a variance within this.

If you don’t realize you have the capacity to manage, control and grow yourself within hardware and software, then you will be buffeted but every competing idea, even to the point of being forced into submission by some of them. You do get to choose to take hold of who you are, to ensure that trauma does not predominate your code writing, to make choices that are both wise and desirable, to not have others or crowds draw you into their madness and so write your own life.
We need to look at our social norms, or more in particular the Judeo-Christian worldview, to see how it has molded our perceptions of our roles over time and how this worldview has changed our cultures. Seeing it for the good outcomes it can bring, seeing it for the ways in which it has grown over time, and looking at how the Judea-Christian worldview can help you to navigate your hardware and your software.

You get to choose to write good code, and in some aspects, even the Judea-Christian gets rewritten, the end of slavery, suffragettes, and equality based on the unchangeables, sex, race, physical ability, and age.
Just because you can do a thing, does not make it wise to do it. There is also corrupted code out there. There are world views that are intrinsically destructive. The Marxist Leninist Maoist worldview with reliance on the dialectic can only seem to consume and destroy. Hedonism narcissism and victimhood equally reduce people to reactions of their former selves.

Take a step back, and look at the outcomes for others in the choices they have made, this is instrumental in understanding the place of our nature (hardware) and our nurture (software) and that we can overcome the opinions of others, and write our own lives.