The facts of the matter give us all we need to argue against any restrictions on women or men to prescribed gender roles or any assumption that any individual will have certain cognitive or psychological traits because of their sex.
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If we fail to do this and instead argue that men & women are psychologically & cognitively identical and seek to punish those who say differently because we think that reality is a social construct perpetuated in language and some arguments must be banned & others promoted...
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We can only lose credibility with reasonable & observant people who know damn well that men & women have differences on average. This leaves them open to accepting right-wing narratives which do acknowledge this but make too much of them, neglect individual variation & moralise.
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I was at a personality psychology lecture just yesterday where it was argued that the only differences between sexes were biological and everything else is a social construct relating to genders. There doesn’t appear to be much science to back that up.
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A tautology. Everything that is biological is biological and everything that is socialised is socialised. But what are they including in those categories? Our evolved brains are biological as are our hormones & both produce cognitive, psychological & behavioural differences
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Yes. You only need to see how male and female toddlers play to see the differences. The argument was that ‘subtle’ norms are placed on children from the cradle and most of the argument was centred around books, toys etc and if these cues weren’t present we would see no differenc
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That is an interesting argument, because there actually *are* societies without toys and books. Very poor places in for example Africa will not enjoy tools from outside, but only depend on toys that are self-made (wire-frame cars, banana leaf footballs etc.).
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And even without those external cues we still see differences.
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Bang on, H. Even if it’s true that men or women have this or that facility in greater amounts, it says nothing about individuals. Top female athletes are better than 9.99% of men in their events and International rugby players are tougher/more skilled than 90% of male players.
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2/2 primary exposure early in life is their mothers, and their mothers friends, also most likely women/mothers. But they instead display inherently different ways of expressing personality than there female friends...who would have thought?
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While I think that masculinity/femininity can exist on a spectrum, they are still different. If gender was determined by operant conditioning or exposure to your environment then it makes sense to me that more boys would be more ‘feminine’ as their 1/2
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