Technically, without the intervention of certain genes and hormones that cause the development of male genital and neurological features, embryos develop into female humans. However, this is completely irrelevent to the topic at hand.
Society presents male as "default" and female as "other." Truth is that neither is "default" in anything but the most basic sense, kind of like how albinism/lack of pigment is the default without the intervention of a color-causing genes/melanin. The default person ought to be just a person of random gender, but the way society and its fictional sseries are constructed present male as the default, as the nexus of understanding, and female as sort of a cultural special interest group that males need not identify with. Consider how women are expected to identify with male figures of particular cultural salience in absence of a comparable female figure, for example.
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Society presents male as "default" and female as "other." Truth is that neither is "default" in anything but the most basic sense, kind of like how albinism/lack of pigment is the default without the intervention of a color-causing genes/melanin. The default person ought to be just a person of random gender, but the way society and its fictional sseries are constructed present male as the default, as the nexus of understanding, and female as sort of a cultural special interest group that males need not identify with. Consider how women are expected to identify with male figures of particular cultural salience in absence of a comparable female figure, for example.