This article was pretty interesting! and kind of frightening. I think there's a lot of culture tied to gender, so I really don't know how such an experiment would turn out....
Does anyone really start with no culture at all? I think people are hit with culture the moment they're born. They see examples from other people and follow them, and that's how they assimilate. Then again, no one's going to know what gender this baby is, so will people be setting the same examples? perhaps not. But there's also a matter of whether the baby knows its own gender. The baby would have to be unaware of whether it's male or female.
Also, I don't think people are really able to completely eliminate a particular culture from their behavior. It think, eventually, even if the baby didn't know if it was male or female, it would choose between one of the two rather than a level mixture of both, considering a lot of actions are tied into each other. Liking sports leads to wearing clothes a certain way, acting a certain way, etc. Same with liking dolls or house, etc. There can be some mixing, but in the end, society is so dichotomous when it comes to gender that a choice will probably need to be made.
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