I think so much would be helped in the gender wars if only people would stop taking all or nothing approaches and recognise that different but strongly overlapping distributions of psychological traits exist between the sexes.
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This leads to devaluing the areas in which women are stronger on average and the fields of expertise they tend to dominate. Healthcare & education are rather important ones. It also leads to an assumption that men are routinely discriminating against and undervaluing women.
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Assuming that men and women are fundamentally different & suited for fundamentally different roles in life is usually understood to disadvantage women because it has historically restricted their career opportunities but it also disadvantages men.
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It assumes that it is always better to be expected to spend more time at work & less time at home with family whilst many men might actually prefer to work less & be with family more but be afraid of being seen as lazy, unambitious or irresponsible in a way that women seldom are
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So, just stop taking all or nothing positions, humans, and recognise different but overlapping distributions of psychological traits/interests/abilities.
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#Evolution is phasing#men out? -
Unlikely!
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I’ve always found that funny - in a bid to combat sexism they promote a worldview that categorises women as defective men. Their logic is not like our Earth logic.
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