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Suppose greater male variance is true, how should feminists respond? Well, if they think more high IQ females would be good, there are things like embryo select
by Moshe_Silnorin 11y ago
Suppose greater male variance is true, how should feminists respond? Well, if they think more high IQ females would be good, there are things like embryo selection and iterated embryo selection that would vastly overwhelm greater variance.
If you combined iterated embryo selection with sex selection against males, you could vastly increase the number of genius women.
So even if you grant greater variance, this is all very impeachable by technological means, and technological means are just extensions of human means. Reality is allowed to differ from ideology and almost always does. However, ideology with technology can change reality. Those ideologues that refuse to interface with technology lose much of their power to shape reality in the manner their ideologies prescribe. Combine that with the fact that biology is becoming increasingly mutable and you have neat science fiction idea: ideologies competing to redesign humans in their image.
- danharaj 11y agoYou don't have to reach into science fiction to see this. The concept of biopower outlines how modern ideologies mold human life to their structures. Feminism has always been allied with radical and revolutionary biopolitics. It does not need eugenics and futuristic bioengineering to be so. Furthermore, the idea that feminists give a shit about sex-linked variation is nonsensical and I really hope I did not give that impression in my parent comment. It's quite the opposite. The whole point I was trying to make was that feminists don't care about this level of difference, that their ideology is engaged at the structural level of society and that this engagement is completely unintelligible without deeper criticism.