Recommended link; male, female, other... As long as we're still futzing about with this topic, I want to be sure that you're aware of Mark Liberman's "He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn" [not], at
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003578.html#more . Not only does Liberman say quite a lot about the function(s) of "hostile and socially agressive women," he offers a splendid assortment of cartoons to go with what he says and seriously examines the question of what makes (many) people think those cartoons are funny.