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Personally I get it, given that it's not uncommon to find social conservatives who push a sort of gender essentialism very strongly: men are like this, women ar

Personally I get it, given that it's not uncommon to find social conservatives who push a sort of gender essentialism very strongly: men are like this, women are like this, period, and if you're different, you're broken. I think the sensitivity to scientific conclusions that sound like they're in the same ballpark is understandable, even if, yes, it shouldn't lead to people just ignoring data that doesn't agree with their beliefs.

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HideousKojima 6y ago
>Personally I get it, given that it's not uncommon to find social conservatives who push a sort of gender essentialism very strongly: men are like this, women are like this, period, and if you're different, you're broken. I think it's far more common to find people with positions closer to the scientific consensus who get falsely maligned as icky social conservative barbarians than it is to actually find these alleged social conservative barbarians in the wild. See, for example, the entire James Damore fiasco (which happened in spite of Damore's repeated insistence that he was talking about averages and trends etc.) EDIT: Not to mention several examples in this very thread.
_underfl0w_ 6y ago
One might begin to wonder if there's more than mere correlation between those who adopt socially conservative beliefs and those who seem unable to paint their environment in anything other than such broad strokes...