Agreed that 'identity left' often gets focused on obvious cultural things over less obvious structural legal factors.
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I would say, though, that part of our core argument is that a) men's material interests make sexist ideas dangerously seductive...
and so we fight extra hard against those ideas, which is where the accusations of thought policing come in, which I don't fully deny...
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and b) those ideas are also very dangerous to women, because in the social justice understanding, gender differences = due to acculturation.
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so actually a key part of achieving gender parity in fields like engineering is fighting against arguments that root disparity in biology.
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