Clarissa's Blog

Right. There’s enormous variation in fertility among women, so this must mean that saying that women are the biological sex that gets pregnant and gives birth is wrong. The smugness with which people routinely roll out this nugget of wisdom is extraordinary. “Women in menopause can’t give birth, so what, are they men?” “I know one Asian guy who is stupid, so you must be wrong about Asians having high IQs on average.” “I know this one very tall woman, so you can’t claim that, on average, women are shorter than men.”