kraftiekortie wrote:
If we were dogs, I would rather that we emphasize our dogness over our gender/sex.
Gender roles exist in dog packs. African wild dogs are the most interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_wild_dog#Social_structure wrote:
Males and females have separate dominance hierarchies, with the latter usually being led by the oldest female. Males may be led by the oldest male, but these can be supplanted by younger specimens, thus some packs may contain elderly former male pack leaders. The dominant pair typically monopolises breeding.[5] The species differs from most other social species by the fact that males remain in the natal pack, while females disperse (a pattern also found in primates like gorillas, chimpanzees and red colobuses). Furthermore, males in any given pack tend to outnumber females 3:1.[6] Dispersing females will join other packs and evict some of the resident females related to the other pack members, thus preventing inbreeding and allowing the evicted specimens to find new packs of their own and breed.[5] Males rarely disperse, and when they do, they are invariably rejected by other packs already containing males.