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Odra Noel
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Fewer gender barriers, more gender differences?
09/09/08 at 15:15:13
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09tier.html?em
 
“Humanity’s jaunt into monotheism, agriculturally based economies and the monopolization of power and  
resources by a few men was ‘unnatural’ in many ways,” Dr. Schmitt says, alluding to evidence that hunter-
gatherers were relatively egalitarian.

 
Weren't we discussing the Native Americans and their pretty egalitarian social structure recently?
 
“In some ways modern progressive cultures are returning us psychologically to our hunter-gatherer roots,”  
he argues. “That means high sociopolitical gender equality over all, but with men and women expressing  
predisposed interests in different domains. Removing the stresses of traditional agricultural societies could allow  
men’s, and to a lesser extent women’s, more ‘natural’ personality traits to emerge.”

 
I tend to agree with this, and I've thought for about 2 decades that the emergence of a cartoonish hyper-masculinity was a growing pain associated with this... that men were rediscovering HOW to be men. Considerable popular culture ("American Beauty," "Fight Club") has kind of addressed this in different ways...
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Re: Fewer gender barriers, more gender differences
Reply #1 - 09/09/08 at 15:34:51
 
Dr. Schmitt, a psychologist at Bradley University in Illinois and the director of the International Sexuality Description Project, suggests that as wealthy modern societies level external barriers between women and men, some ancient internal differences are being revived.
 
"Ancient internal differences?" Like, what? Uteruses?  
 
Call it a hunch, but it could just be that as women make more gains, and the higher status of men becomes inevitably more threatened in society, it's an obvious DUH that the two would find themselves having less in common ... whereas, in conservative societies, men and women feel the same way about everything, because women aren't really supposed to feel a certain way about anything in the first place.  
 
I don't understand exactly how comparing the speeds of competitive distance runners on college teams disproves sociocultural theory about gender. Methinks there are a LOT of gaps in that conclusion not being accounted for. I would HATE to see what kind of conclusions these guys would draw with a study about sports, competitiveness, and, say, race as opposed to gender.  
 
In summation:
 
Evolutionary psychology is still bullshit.
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Re: Fewer gender barriers, more gender differences
Reply #2 - 09/09/08 at 15:38:32
 
"Ancient Internal Differences" = new band name.  
 
It reminds me of "ANCIENT CHINESE SECRET"!
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