Some people think it's inconsistent that I am critical of feminism and of 'traditional gender roles' which make women purely wives and mothers and domestic workers but it isn't. If feminism was just that, I wouldn't be critical of it.
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I think some people can be fulfilled by a life devoted to domestic & family stuff and devoid of work or intellectual pursuits just as some people can be fulfilled by a life devoted to work or intellectual pursuits & devoid of domestic & family stuff but I think most ppl need both
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I am very very sceptical of traditional gender roles at the same time as recognising that gender differences exist and lead to different choices in life. This is because I know we are overlapping populations. Steven Pinker said it best:pic.twitter.com/JurdNpL7C6
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Replying to @HPluckrose @benpobjie
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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Replying to @erstkate @benpobjie
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @benpobjie
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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Replying to @erstkate @benpobjie
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @erstkate
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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