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And why cannot feminism be what it once was (a movement towards equality and not privelege)?
Despite that, the differences between male and female brains still manifest in behavior. Statistically speaking, men are still more likely to perform certain roles in society, such as those requiring hard physical labor, jobs that require visual-spacial awareness like engineering, and other stereotypically "male" tasks. Females are still more likely to pursue humanitarian fields of work or study, which simply don't pay as much.
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FyreT1ger wrote:The first response I had to the original post would have been snarky, so I'm glad I waited for another person to post. I read the transcript for the video, which didn't include any vulgarity, and some things mentioned I agree with, but not everything.
Not everyone who is against modern feminism is male.
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Sara Whitley wrote:Human beings express what is called sexual dimorphism, which is an evolved difference between male and female within any given species. Our brains are sexually dimorphic in structure and neurochemistry. The neurochemical differences of male and female will affect how the brain develops, as well as predispositions to certain behaviors. The most commonly known chemicals that drive the change between men and women are estrogen and testosterone.
I can't really cite any studies that directly link the differing career preferences between males and females to sexual dimorphism of the brain, because it's always going to be a complex, case-dependent interplay of biological sex and the social construct of gender. What can be cited, however, could be innumerable studies establishing a fairly solid link between neurochemistry and behavior, from the subject of neuroscience. And then, borrowing studies from the field of physical anthropology, we can see that sexual dimorphism of the brain has evolutionary roots, and that these differences between man and women were naturally selected as these differences must have provided us a greater chance of survival.
As sexual dimorphism in the hominid brain far predates the evolution of language, neurochemical differences between the sexes are the primary driving force for the concept of "gender" and its numerous manifestations in human culture, including gender roles.
Therefore, sexually dimorphic neurochemistry remains and probably will remain not only the reason men and women will prefer different careers, but the reason men and women were ever raised differently in the first place.
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Dawn ✩ Quixotic wrote:Sara Whitley wrote:Human beings express what is called sexual dimorphism, which is an evolved difference between male and female within any given species. Our brains are sexually dimorphic in structure and neurochemistry. The neurochemical differences of male and female will affect how the brain develops, as well as predispositions to certain behaviors. The most commonly known chemicals that drive the change between men and women are estrogen and testosterone.
I can't really cite any studies that directly link the differing career preferences between males and females to sexual dimorphism of the brain, because it's always going to be a complex, case-dependent interplay of biological sex and the social construct of gender. What can be cited, however, could be innumerable studies establishing a fairly solid link between neurochemistry and behavior, from the subject of neuroscience. And then, borrowing studies from the field of physical anthropology, we can see that sexual dimorphism of the brain has evolutionary roots, and that these differences between man and women were naturally selected as these differences must have provided us a greater chance of survival.
As sexual dimorphism in the hominid brain far predates the evolution of language, neurochemical differences between the sexes are the primary driving force for the concept of "gender" and its numerous manifestations in human culture, including gender roles.
Therefore, sexually dimorphic neurochemistry remains and probably will remain not only the reason men and women will prefer different careers, but the reason men and women were ever raised differently in the first place.
Yes, but what is the proof that is due to inherent neurochemistry and not due to cultural programming?
There's a lot of conjecture thrown around and some of it has vague evidence to support it, but until I see some actual studies, with actual rigorous experimentation and controls involved, I'm not going to buy it as anything close to having real support of proof.
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Grnmachine wrote:This would depend on who your talking about, FeminISTS, or FemiNAZIS. Ive had more than my fair share of run-ins with Feminazis, and they keep telling me about how much of a horrible person i am purely on the fact i'm male. In fact ive heard of a case where a so-called Feminist aborted a child she was going to have based only on the fact it was a boy. I cant find a source for this one, so take it with a grain of salt.
And i think the discussions have introduced the wage gap, so let me throw in my two cents. The wage gap DOESNT EXIST- there have been a few studies that show that woman earn less, not out of sexism, but out of the choices the woman make. E.g. part time vs full time, hours worked, career choices, education, among other things. So really, woman are asking for special treatment if they want to be paid "equally".
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