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.
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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