The Rhetorical Trap at the Heart of the Neurosexism Debate
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.
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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.
Sweden was the first state to acknowledge Palestine, antagonising what is the only democratic power in Middle East and steadfast Western ally, Israel.
Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.
If we ask these accusers to explain themselves, are we blaming the victims? Possibly.
There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear.
We must use these distinctions with care. Labels are most effective when used as a scalpel, not a hammer. Feminologists should not be ridiculed or insulted, but convinced.
Recognizing the existence of differences between men and women should not be considered a regression for the women’s rights movement.
If this rate of letter propagation continues, we’ll soon have an acronym that spans several lines and will be worth well over two thousand points in Scrabble.
By no means does freedom of religion, however, confer on religion or religious customs exemptions from criticism, satire, or even derision.
Cossman consistently minimised the scope and power of C-16, using qualifying words and phrases like only, most extreme and high threshold.
For every article published highlighting a case of students being taught this ideology, there are dozens of other instances that aren’t covered by the news.