I already feel sorry for asking, but what exactly is the motivation for those who want gender to be considered a purely social construct?
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Replying to @christianjbdev
In feminism, it stems from the fact that differences between men & women have been used to say women are inferior & should be subordinated.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
In particular, women are over-emotional, irrational, fickle, bad at maths & science. Therefore men must control them & run the world.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
I also see it as an attempt to claim epistemic authority over an intractably complex field so they can give untestable claims legitimacy.
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Replying to @Intrinsic29 @christianjbdev
There's an anti-science strain, definitely but fundamentally underlain by ideas of cultural conditioning - women told they can't science.
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This makes them think they can't science. Then they don't science. So anything which said men more drawn to science is very dangerous.
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