I have a started piece on the internalised misogyny of this idea that if men & women are different, it can only mean women are inferior.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
You see it most clearly when feminists call arguing that cognitive & psychological differences exist 'perpetuating the idea of 'lady-brain.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I'm actually sympathetic. I think women can reason just as well as men, but doesn't entail we must be alike in every detail.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Sympathetic to women being told they don't think good? Me too! Sadly, this claim gets conflated with any identification of difference
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
It is simply insupportable for anyone to say men have a higher interest in or aptitude for anything - can only be sexism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yeah, I guess. There is the debate over whether genders have different average interests, which I think they do.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
And it's annoying that stereotypical male fascination with machinery seems to be more valuable in jobs market than F interest with people.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
I'm not entirely sure why that is. Might be a hangover from days in which women were seen as not needing to be paid as much generally.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
No, I think it's just that we have a hi-tech economy where skills with machinery and coding pays more.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
And these types of jobs seem to interest men a bit more than women - on average. Cos more male nerds.
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Men more interested in how things work. Women in how people work - on average.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Exactly. Computer nerds disproportionately male. It may get more female but I doubt we'll ever have 50/50.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Even I am more interested in how people work but I choose long dead people so I don't have to actually talk to them. ;-)
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