# @calotonterias on the kibbutz and gender roles (verbatim) Analysis: [[Users/@calotonterias/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - calotonterias on Kibbutz Gender Roles (2026-10-31)|Post Analysis]] · Author: [[Users/@calotonterias/calotonterias-x-profile|@calotonterias]] · Topic: [[Topics/Social Gender Roles/Social Gender Roles|Social Gender Roles]] - **URL:** https://x.com/calotonterias/status/2116589631823090013 - **Author:** Sergio Ferrero, [@calotonterias](https://x.com/calotonterias), posting in Spanish - **Posted:** Oct 31, 2026, 12:54 PM CT (5:54 PM UTC) - **Metrics (X API, Oct 31, 2026, about 2:45 PM CT):** 3,402 views · 244 likes · 56 reposts · 7 replies · 4 quotes · 97 bookmarks - **Media:** 2 images (the paragraph being quoted, and the header of the article it comes from). Downloaded at original size and embedded below. The post is not a video and does not quote another post. - **Why the text stops mid-sentence:** the post body ends at "sin embargo," followed by a link to the images. The rest of the sentence is in image 1, which is an English screenshot of a paragraph from an Aporia Magazine article (image 2). ## Post text (verbatim, Spanish) > En experimentos sociales históricos como los kibutz israelíes de comienzos del siglo XX, se intentaron eliminar por completo los roles de género. Al principio, hombres y mujeres realizaban las mismas tareas, y los niños se criaban de manera comunal. Con el tiempo, sin embargo, [link to images] ## English translation (mine) > In historical social experiments such as the Israeli kibbutzim of the early 20th century, attempts were made to eliminate gender roles entirely. At first, men and women did the same tasks, and children were raised communally. Over time, however, [link to images] ## Image 1: the paragraph (transcribed from the screenshot, English) ![[Users/@calotonterias/Post Analyses/attachments/calotonterias-kibbutz-paragraph-screenshot.png|520]] > Historical social experiments, such as the early 20th-century Israeli kibbutzim, attempted to eliminate gender roles entirely. Men and women initially performed identical work, and children were raised communally. Yet over time, women gravitated toward child-rearing and less strenuous tasks, while men assumed physically demanding or leadership roles. Mothers rejected communal childcare, marriages formalized, and private family units re-emerged. Anthropologists observed that these changes arose not from male domination but from women's own preferences. ## Image 2: the article header (screenshot) ![[Users/@calotonterias/Post Analyses/attachments/calotonterias-aporia-article-header.jpg|520]] Reads: "The Biological Basis of Gender Roles" · subtitle "Patriarchy is best understood as an emergent outcome of long-term evolutionary pressures." · "SEP 05, 2025" · "Written by Marc J. Defant". The article is on Aporia Magazine: https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/the-biological-basis-of-gender-roles > [!note] Source credit > The post's own text names no source and no author. The source appears only in image 2. No self-reply with a source link was found in the conversation ⚠️ (his earlier posts often carry a "Fuente:" self-reply).