you don't think the difference could be that in the hypothetical case it would be common knowledge that women and men are equally capable of this, but in the pa

you don't think the difference could be that in the hypothetical case it would be common knowledge that women and men are equally capable of this, but in the paper they are reporting on observations that, so far, only show the behaviour for males? in other words, feminists aren't robots that detect syntactic patterns and automatically complain about them. rather, there's actual reasoning and experience behind the objections.