Yeah. My profession is female-dominated but my work for a humanist org has more men & my political-arguing circle is more male.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yeah but what is your area of expertise? Many men also see women as experts in emotion, so if that's what you're arguing about...
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim
Late medieval religious writing officially. I spend more time arguing for secularism, liberalism, gender equality, respect for science etc
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And the things you argue amount mostly involve human relationships and sociological development, which are "women stuff". And lit, obviously
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim @HPluckrose
Maybe I'm confusing context. I think I assumed your debates concerned the roles of those ideologies in the greater social context.
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim
Yes, but that's the whole 'New Atheist' thing which has now passed & spread out into criticising other irrational ideologies.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
We're sitting here parceling out traditional female versus male roles. Kind of the issue presented in your original question.
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim
Well, perceptions of them. I'm interested that your first instinct was to see the kind of arguing I do as something society deems womanish.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Still a product of society, and women have to fight against those internalized perceptions as much as men, you know.
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Replying to @MonaIbrahim
Absolutely. I do think this is helped by a)looking at the science of gender difference & b)promoting individuality across the board.
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My own suspicion in my area is that whilst more women are drawn to verbal reasoning, the combative element draws more men.
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