Here is even more evidence that there are no “innate” differences between women and men. Of course, reading the article involves making an effort, and who needs to do all that when it’s so much easier to fill the inner void with brainless chirpings of, “Yes, men and women are different.”
11 responses to “Men and Women Are Not Innately Different”
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I know you hate evo psych, but I’ve always seen this need to categorise people as a symptom of the human brain not being designed to maintain a relationship with more than a couple hundred people. Many people don’t know how to deal with the thought of 7 billion people, all independent and different from one another… so they group them together and assign them collective identities to lessen the burden. It’s easier to come to conclusions about someone if you’re convinced their gender or race imbues them with certain traits. After that you can stop thinking.
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This is definitely a part of what’s going on. But the intense attachment people have to the issue is evidence that something even greater is at play: people really use these @gender differences@ in lieu of having an identity.
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The best line from the article is this: “increasing gender equality disproportionately benefits women.” Isn’t that the power of feminism right there?
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The next victory for feminism will be when men learn to take advantage of increasing gender equality.
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In all truth, it must be the instinct of a very sick species to attack and attempt to debilitate half of its species by means of hostile actions against a gender. Misogyny is deeply embedded in the Abrahamic religions, and consequently so is a disease of the spirit. I often get the impression someone walks into a new environment and immediately shoots themselves in one of their knees — at least that is how the misogynist hailing of another appears to me.
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I am still inclined to suspect that women are much better than men at multitasking. I cannot drive, navigate, and listen to music at the same time. Any two of these, yes, but never all three together. I have yet to meet a woman who has this limitation. I have no evolutionary psychology explanation to offer, but it is my personal observation.
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Patriarchal conditioning. Not on you, but on these women.
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I suspect the same people who devote their lives finding differences between men and women, also tend to have unshakeable faith in IQ tests.
“Look, I’m not racist. Just look at the numbers.”
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Oops.
I tried to follow your link in the public library and was then informed it was ‘Prohibited by URL Database (Drugs)’.
Not sure what research on gender differences has to do with drugs. But I can’t currently make the effort to read the article.LikeLike
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