[ExI] opinion

[William Flynn Wallace]

You won't find many psychologists who think men and women are the same -
certainly not evolutionary ones.

And I argue that it makes little difference how they are raised.  Unisex
toys get played with differently by boys and girls, and so on.  You can't
take the boy out of the boy.  A famous case is where a boy with mutilated
genitals had them removed and was raised as a girl.  Later he questioned
all of this and somehow knew he was not a girl.  Genetics is powerful.

You can make a future gay boy play with tanks and play football, but it
won't matter at all.

bill w

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:16 AM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:31 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> > We really have a hard time denying men and women are different
> emotionally.
> > I know, politically incorrect, but I am old, so I get a license to some
> > extent.
>
> Eh...a lot of that, though, is that they are often raised differently.
> And perhaps they shouldn't be.
>
> That's not 100% of the difference, but the overlap between biological
> capability is such that the social influences seem to account for a
> majority of the difference seen in practice.
>
> > Adrian, in the scenario you described, I woulda likely reacted pretty
> > similarly.  OK now, how does it change had those four girls been four gay
> > men?  You (and I) would really be extremely annoyed.
>
> Annoyed, yes.  Traumatized for life, no.  Encouraged to take it as
> being violated, no.  See examples suggesting we should make a big
> dramatic thing of it, no.  Led to believe that someone else needs to
> handle it and we can't (only to see them unable to do so because
> there's not really a thing to handle), no.
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