<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Oct 26, 2018, at 12:18 PM, SR Ballard <<a href="mailto:sen.otaku@gmail.com">sen.otaku@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I think it would take extreme environments to alter the power of genetics.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div></blockquote><br><div>I’m not saying genetics have no power, I’m asking how much power they have in relation to environment. Is environment 10%? 25%? I sincerely doubt it would be near or above 50% actually.</div><div><br></div><div>And further, what counts as “extreme”? Sexual assault? Child abuse? PTSD? They are honestly pretty common it seems.</div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And it’s not like children are raised in a gender neutral environment until they’re 12. The socialization process starts at birth.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By the way, two professors who write quite reasonably on gender issues are Anne Fausto-Sterling (_Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social World_) and </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Caroline Fine (_Testosterone Rex_).</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Libertarians all too often end up being bio-essentialists (and conservative ones at that) on this issue. But there are a growing number of libertarians who take what I believe to be a better approach to gender. See:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://c4ss.org/content/38269">https://c4ss.org/content/38269</a></div><div><br></div><div>and, if you have time, </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://charleswjohnson.name/essays/libertarian-feminism/">http://charleswjohnson.name/essays/libertarian-feminism/</a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>