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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Stereotypical femininity is social, stereotypical masculinity is analytical. Analytical genius is more of a recognizable/scalable thing than social genius. Also, men tend to be higher variance and thus disproportionately make up geniuses, so I'd say genius seems more masculine.
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Lulie
@reasonisfun
Is being a genius compatible with being feminine? 'Feminine' has a social quality—soothing conflicts, caring for feelings. 'Genius' requires(?) bucking social—doing things that are 'crazy', violating conventions. @sentientist @webdevMason @Aella_Girl @SamoBurja @juliagalef
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Chris Sawyer
@Behav_Inquiry
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@Aella_Girl
That's a tricky premise. There are accepted standards for an intelligence quotient (IQ) for a "genius". People do try and cite "EQ" or "Emotional Intelligence" as a metric but for all the flack IQ gets, EQ lacks empirical backing by an even insurmountable margin.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Behav_Inquiry
You're right, i generally agree with this. What I'm trying to get at, though, is what if you identify the skills/type of attention most correlated with gender, and then turn the knob on those all the way up? For men you'd get something like great math skills, and for women?
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Albert
@AlbertLEtranger
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@Aella_Girl
There’s layers of questions here—are femininity and masculinity possible outside what is considered to be stereotypically so? If so, is that kind of femininity compatible with genius? If not, can we say genius is more masculine even if that connection isn’t analytic?
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