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These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios.
This can only go on for so long before people push back.
The mantra implies that if FGM did have health benefits, it wouldn’t be so bad after all.
What Google needs to do is to tailor its diversity policies towards the men and women who work at Google.
Psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. Equality or diversity. You can’t have both.
There will never be perfect 50:50 gender parity in every field.
Kipnis’ cautionary tale dovetails with Camille Paglia’s collection of essays, Free Women, Free Men.
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
From that perspective, it might make sense to co-opt “gender” to refer to human sexual phenotypic diversity.
The net effect is a chilling of casual sexual interactions, especially amongst young people. And so, why is anyone surprised? And why doesn’t the media want to talk about it?
The Motte and Bailey Doctrine has been a successful rhetorical device for anti-sex difference academics and authors for some time now, but it is beginning to fray at the edges.
In fact—it’s even more interesting than that. Multiple matings do (perhaps surprisingly) benefit females in all sorts of ways across all sort of species.
Women have become angry and defensive as a result of being raised to view men as the enemy.
What happens in a culture where equality rules?
The point is rather that, potentially, even quite marked sex differences in the brain may have little consequence for behaviour.