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Is There An Extreme Female Brain? (2009)

• PaulHoule 5y ago
  "Caring profession" work (particularly home health aid) is always in demand even if it isn't high paid. A woman who works in a stereotypicaly female field was trying to butter me and another guy up by praising our for our systematizing ability. The other guy took the bait, but I had to actually stop my first reaction and substitute that with "look she is trying to flatter you" -- too often I've felt that my systematizing separated me from other people so it wasn't the right read on an empathic level (which was supposed to be that woman's strength) and she would have been better off finding something else to praise me for.