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In addition, we can account for the relative rarity of hermaphrodites in the general population, for the consistency of male-female somatotypes that we do find, and for the relative rarity of cross-sexed characteristics in the general population though they occur with more frequency than we are now willing to imagine by recognizing that there is a process of cultural selection which, for people, supersedes natural selection in importance.

Archive 2009-08-01 Renee 2009

It does necessarily serve to uphold cultural norms and to ensure that deviant somatotypes and cross-sexed characteristics are systematically bred out of the population.

Archive 2009-08-01 Renee 2009

It does necessarily serve to uphold cultural norms and to ensure that deviant somatotypes and cross-sexed characteristics are systematically bred out of the population.

Andrea Dworkin On Transgender Renee 2009

In addition, we can account for the relative rarity of hermaphrodites in the general population, for the consistency of male-female somatotypes that we do find, and for the relative rarity of cross-sexed characteristics in the general population though they occur with more frequency than we are now willing to imagine by recognizing that there is a process of cultural selection which, for people, supersedes natural selection in importance.

Andrea Dworkin On Transgender Renee 2009

Maybe designers should be required to make clothing for all three of the basic body somatotypes: ectomorphs, mesomorphs and endomorphs.

"The man of the moment is an urchin, a wraith or an underfed runt." Ann Althouse 2008

"You see, the somatotypes have, we've discovered, a great influence on mental and emotional makeup."

Hex Laurence M. Janifer 1967

By carefully examining these photos he discovered that there were three fundamental elements which, when combined together, made up all these physiques or somatotypes.

The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008

Women are grouped more toward the cent of the body type diagram and that makes their somatotypes harder to distinguish from one another.

The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008

The formal connection between personality and body type in academic research goes back to 1940, when the psychologist William Sheldon established the somatotypes, which are three generalized body shapes that he theorized could be linked biogenetically to personality: ectomorphs, mesomorphs, and endomorphs.

Americans Can’t Escape Long-Disproven Body Stereotypes - The Atlantic - Pocket Amanda Mull 2023