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If this is something you find interesting or where your opinion might matter to other people, I encourage you to look into the enormous amount of research that
by lazyasciiart 6y ago
If this is something you find interesting or where your opinion might matter to other people, I encourage you to look into the enormous amount of research that has been done on differences between men and women in our current society and what might cause those differences.
If you don't feel like doing that, a good alternative is that you should not be definite about any of it.
- neonological 6y ago>If you don't feel like doing that, a good alternative is that you should not be definite about any of it. I can be definite about anything I want. Additionally, how do you know I haven't already looked at the enormous amount of research? Either way, the research supports my views in a pretty definitive way. I'm just saying that game genres should cater to the definite biological differences in interests between men and women. Do you disagree? Fine. I accept your disagreement. Let's agree to disagree and not let this turn into a gender flame war. I'm not going to reply this thread.
- lazyasciiart 6y agoI was giving you the benefit of the doubt that if you'd looked at research, you'd know better than to make definitive statements or to rely on your personal anecdotes from toddlerhood. I was also assuming that you were not actually intending to make inflammatory statements prompting people to correct you (what you are probably referring to as a gender flame war), but from your various responses I am no longer sure that assumption is valid. It's somewhat ironic that your participation here consists of a) a thread where you strenuously argue that it is not possible to make definite claims of truth backed by science b) a claim that you know the definite truth about a particular scientific question.
- neonological 6y agoHey, stop being a creeper. Don't stalk my old posts, wtf.
- lazyasciiart 6y agoI'd say we have different definitions of creeper. And stalking.
- neonological 6y agoTell your colleagues that you’ve read their past instagrams then. You only do this bs here because it’s anonymous.
- tryonenow 6y agoSociology is absolutely infested with progressive dogma. I imagine anyone who dared to ask, let alone research, whether there were biological origins for gendered behaviors and tastes would be cancelled, if they could even get funding. So there is an implicit pressure not to ask certain questions, and any modern research into the subject is going to be horribly biased. This idea that all gender differences are purely environmental is at odds with the sexually dimorphic specialization that we observe across time, culture, and species. It makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. We know that hormones influence behavior. And then there are physical differences between men and women that also will inevitably combine on to manifest as innate gendered preferences. This all in addition to the verified differences in male/female brain structure and processing. This anti-intellectualism is particularly dangerous because, as your comment illustrates, the vast majority of people who are aware of the "research" are completely ignorant of the very real dogmatic pressures pervasive in academia which suppress entire opposing viewpoints. The result is increasingly poor policy in the corporate and political spheres.