Yes. The pressure not to acknowledge gender differences does come from a fear that to do so is to make women inferior. But this doesn't come from women generally. It comes from a specific ideology which has a lot of power and, ironically, considers itself feminist. #StopHelping https://twitter.com/culture_worrier/status/956084293759045632 …
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The maddest thing, to me, is people who actually have children thinking that they can so easily be steered into liking & disliking certain things by exposure to social cues so subtle it requires gender studies scholars to uncover them & show them to us.
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Apparently, the same little beings who require years of explicit training & consistently negative reactions to non-compliance to learn things like 'share' and 'ask nicely' can be dissuaded from doing what they really want to do by being given pink clothes & told they're pretty.
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Of course, with my husband and I both believing these gender differences exist on average & cultural conditioning being so powerful, our daughter should certainly not be interested in tech. She is though. Passionately & tediously. She made us aware of this very early on.
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I'm sure a society which regarded this very negatively could have squashed it out of her & made her ashamed of it but we don't live in one. She has said she wishes there were more girls who shared her interests tho.
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To have female friends, she needs to not talk about video games, programming, coding & the merits & flaws of various devices, consoles & software constantly & save this for online forums. That's doable.
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From a biological fitness standpoint, if we're going to go there, being an attractive tech nerd is almost certainly an advantage. I doubt she'll lack for boyfriends and they'll probably be rich too. Sorry, but it's true.
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To some people that observation is problematic because to them it portrays women as inferior but pointing out men are also more likely than women to be criminal or win the Darwin Award is not problematic.
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