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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 24

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      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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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 24

      I wa explaining the James Damore nonsense to my two best friends last week. They had no idea how problematic they were being by noticing that way more of their male friends and family were interested in tech.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 24

          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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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 24

          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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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 24

          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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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 24

          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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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 24

          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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        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 24

          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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        1. T.J.‏ @tjaffry Jan 24
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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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