I strongly dislike the 'Respect women because they have relatives' bullshit. We're a sexually reproducing species which cares for its young and maintains family ties. Nearly everyone has relatives. They're also individuals and have genuinely respect-worthy qualities.
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Yes, precisely. I suspect there is a hard-wired tendency to identify with and model behaviours from those of the same sex, which leads to the vast differences in roles & capabilities between cultures.
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There doesn't seem to be much difference in capabilities and that wouldn't be socialized anyway. Roles certainly differ and it is significant that men and women choose jobs most differently where they have most choice.
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I think I have seen that study you refer to, and wondered whether the measure of how free a society was wasn't in itself socially defined? Freer to conform to stricter informal social mores, even? That said I agree that there are hormonally driven differences.
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The measurement is about where men and women are freer to choose in time and space. Yes, hormones certainly make a difference but so do brains. Panculturally and even in the other apes, consistent differences are found.
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Indeed. Hormones interact with brains, so that's moot. I need to revisit but it seemed that judgement of "freer" was a particularly Western one. In any case, social norms being mostly arbitrary we have some choice - social norms are all that stop men being monsters, imho...
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Yes, but they have different effects. Women's superior verbal skills on average seem to be explained by our brains communicating more across lobes while men's communicate more front to back. Defined by having more rights & less social and parental pressure to go into certain jobs
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Again, I need to read the studies to know whether they've established the communication across lobes comes before social programming or after, given that's the sort of thing that could be altered by socialisation via neuroplasticity.
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Ah, well this is easily read up on. The studies on babies and other apes are particularly revealing.
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This is really well stated. The conservative traditionalists and the gender difference denying feminists are both focused on groups. They have this in common, even if one side wants to ignore the overlap and the other side wants to pretend the difference doesn't exist.
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Yes. My next piece for Areo will be about this.
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Excited to read it! I've recently become a huge fan of your writing. I particularly loved the one on Androphobia. It's a reality check so many seem to need recently.
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Siloing by sex is confining and unfair to outliers but on a societal level it works better than the alternatives. We discarded it without considering the consequences. Now we’re all part of a grand social experiment.
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