If only your newspaper understood that 'evolved' doesn't mean 'present at birth'. It's Evolutionary Biology 101, people. Do better.
“There is certainly no evidence that boys have less capacity for empathy at birth than girls do, so that is learned behavior about what it means to be masculine.” An interview with @peggyorenstein.http://nyer.cm/U9XipY5
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The internalized sexism of peahens is the reason they only socialize their sons into growing flashy tails.
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Sorry to see the New Yorker and
@IChotiner uncritically embracing Ms. Orenstein’s tendentious views on how to “redeem masculinity.” For your consideration:https://time.com/2974/masculinity-is-more-than-a-mask/ … -
The misguided and, frequently, willful and agenda-driven misconstruction of masculinity, that has been allowed to pullulate unchecked within pockets of academia, is now wreaking violent havoc on the psyches of a generation of men, as these ideas permeate into wider society.
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You idiots have never seen how endogenous testosterone changes behaviour have you?
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I liked puppies when I was 8 and I would die for my wife and child.. doesn’t get any more caring than that.
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"Let's learn about what it means to be a man, with Peggy!... next up, Stevie Wonder shows us how to take the perfect photograph and Peter Dinklage teaches us how to dunk a basketball!"
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If there's no evidence it can't imply anything one way or the other. It just says that more research is needed.
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Or perhaps it's not important what babies think, but it is important what happens when they mature, which will be influenced by both the time-dependent & sexually dimorphic activation of genes, by social interactions, and by other environmental factors such as acetaminophen use?
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