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Kevin Mitchell @WiringTheBrain
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I had a gentle insinuation of "neurosexism" from a questioner after a talk I gave last week, due to chapter on sex differences in #INNATE. For the record, here's what I think about such differences:
I don't think recognising that sex differences in behaviour exist in humans, as in other mammals, for good evolutionary reasons, is sexist. I think it's important if we want to understand many central aspects of human nature.
I certainly DO think it's sexist to take such differences as evidence that one sex is superior to the other. And it's definitely sexist to apply group average differences to derive expectations of individuals, which is the very definition of prejudice.
And I think it is naive and simplistic to think that such sex differences (even if they were completely biological in origin and not reinforced by culture) can fully explain historical societal inequities
And I think it's SUPER-sexist to take that flawed logic one step further and suggest that sex differences not only explain but *justify* such inequities
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