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Yeah, that's a definite concern, but otoh I do want to pay attention to the sources of apparent differences I see in how I think about stuff and how some women writers seem to. I'm not pre-committed to either there being differences or no differences.
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fwiw there are definitive and measurable differences in the ways that men and women see and move through the world but any discussion of that without mentioning the generational violence that shapes the differences in their lived environments is depicting a fiction of equality
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further, it would be one thing if this structural violence was a historical artifact and not a present reality, ie that any measured differences or even contemplation of them wasn’t fodder for further justification of continued violence
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I feel like we're talking past each other a bit. Like I'm noting "tall people make better basketball players" and you're noting "black people dominating basketball has a racism angle". Both are true, and connected: basketball players are disproportionately both tall and black.