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Gender and Our Brains cites studies and data that are selectively chosen to support a predetermined conclusion. As to why: > After almost 20 years of hearing
by Vomzor 7y ago
Gender and Our Brains cites studies and data that are selectively chosen to support a predetermined conclusion.
As to why:
> After almost 20 years of hearing the same invalid arguments (like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day” waking up to the same song every day), I have come to see clearly that the real problem is a deeply ingrained, implicit, very powerful yet 100 percent false assumption that if women and men are to be considered “equal,” they have to be “the same.” Conversely, the argument goes, if neuroscience shows that women and men are not the same on average, then it somehow shows that they are not equal on average. Although this assumption is false, it still creates fear of sex differences in those operating on it.
A critique: https://quillette.com/2019/03/29/denying-the-neuroscience-of-sex-differences/ https://quillette.com/2019/03/29/denying-the-neuroscience-of...
- krautsourced 7y agoI'm curious: if the male and female brain, from a neuroscientific perspective, are truly the same - can we assume the book's author would be perfectly fine with all neuroscience from now on be done on male brains exclusively and the results then applied to female brains without further research? Somehow I doubt this.
- detcader 7y agoReading the book's blurbs and Kiser's descriptions I don't see anything about the book claiming m/f/intersex brains are all neurologically _identical_ in their developmental origins and trajectories... just that they aren't "gendered" (e.g. aren't structured in ways that cause tropes or stereotypes) and that there are many old myths related to the genderedness assumption in brains to be debunked. The Amazon description indeed reads "A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains" -- but it's basically a 0% that the author wrote that bit!
- tgv 7y agoIf anybody ever says the brains of men and women are identical, the average brain has > a volume of around 1260 cm3 in men and 1130 cm3 in women. It's nonsense, spawned by fear that acknowledging differences will justify discrimination.