“Sex differences, on almost every psychological trait measured, are either non-existent or fairly small. Certainly they are much smaller than the differences in social situations. . . Their modest size would hardly register them as important phenomena if we were not already culturally cued to exaggerate them” (21).
“A great deal of research has now been done on the issue. The usual finding, on intellect, temperament and other personal traits, is that there are no measurable differences at all” (47).
Connell, R.W. Masculinities. Cambridge: Polity P, 1995.
Everybody with even a minimally functioning brain knows this. But the numbers of people who possess such a brain are not impressive.
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Shouldn’t this be entitled ‘sex differences’? I kind of understand why you didn’t in terms of the wrong kind of traffic, but the current trend of blurring the line between the biological category of sex and the socio-cultural category of ‘gender’ has gone way, way, waaaaaay too far.
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No, because the point is that small sex differences lead to huge gender differences.
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Masculinities can be a really cool field. Occasionally you run into some navel-gazing passive voice bullshit, but it’s really overall quite useful. Especially when you use it alongside studies on nationalism and postcolonialism.
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