Nathaniel Johnson
Aug 22, 2017 · 5 min read

I would say that muddies the water, personally. Wouldn’t you?

Not really. Men and women are different — biologically so — on average. Exceptions exist, but biological sex/brain sex, the two aren’t the same. Prenatal hormones (and by the way, differences between hormone levels prenatally between girls and boys) are what shapes a person’s *brain* to be more ‘masculine’, or ‘feminized’. To be fair, my basis for this is a few studies, but there aren’t many to know whether or not ‘brain sex’ and genitals can develop in different directions, at different times. There are some suggestions that’s the case, and hopefully further research will show what’s the truth.

The issue when we look at XY female, and XX male, is that we’re looking at them within our own set of definitions that don’t necessarily fully match reality. However, XY females (can) function as females — there is a case, if you look it up you’ll find it, where an XY female got pregnant when she was 17, and didn’t discover she was XY until she was 30. Furthermore, looking at sex — male and female — I feel the definition is quite apt at Encyclopedia Britannica: “Sex, the sum of features by which members of species can be divided into two groups — male and female — that complement each other reproductively.”

For there to be a ‘third’ sex, there would need to be a fully-functioning true-hermaphrodite, which currently to my knowledge not only isn’t the case, but seems impossible — short of with help of medicine at which point it’s, frankly, pointless to assert it’s a third sex — given that either ovaries, or gonads tend to stop functioning (if they ever do, usually they don’t) before the person reaches puberty. Not just stop functioning — but become unusable mass of flesh. And if such ‘third’ sex existed, it would be only the combination of the two existing sexes. Nothing more, or less.

Now, you yourself admit you have your own biases, and just by saying you’re Queer, that only re-affirms what you’re saying, as I’ve read enough about queer theory and nonsensical assertations from works on which its based that completely ignore biology.

What we know, though:

On average, men are stronger. On average, men are higher (than women). On average, women have more gray matter percentage than men. On average, men, and I quote: “have approximately 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence than women, and women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence than men. Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter represents the networking of — or connections between — these processing centers.”

From: “brain areas where males and females manifest their intelligence.”

“For example, 84 percent of gray-matter regions and 86 percent of white-matter regions involved with intellectual performance in women were found in the brain’s frontal lobes, compared to 45 percent and zero percent for males, respectively.”

Hormones alone impact behaviours, sex drive, and countless other bodily functions — including our brains — and the differences can be stark between men and women. You needn’t go further than an average trans person that’s on HRT to know that. But you can, because there’s research on that as well.

The only thing, however, that we can assert is that it’s hard to know how much cultural impact, and how much biological impact, is on women and men. As someone said, the only thing that’s certain is that the impact of both is more than zero. However, with more research — and more replicated studies — we can find out what the truth is, on average. I’m quite confident, given countless numerous studies that have been slowly accumulating in the last ~ 15 years, some of which you and Mr. Damore have missed, that we’re quite different.

And the reason we should look at it, it’s because it’s more likely explanation than ‘sexism’. I mean, given you buy into queerness — and I’m sure feminism to an extent — there’s not much to be said. It’s the equivalent of expecting Christians or Muslims to do a study about existence of God (or lack of it), if such study could be done.

It’s two of the things in this world, well, three if we add religion, that are based on absolute unscientific nonsense — but so many people buy into it. What’s worse, we’re discriminating against men because of various feminist assertions. But that’s okay, because history — ignoring countless stuff, history of men in general, and the fact that discrimination is still… discrimination. Regardless of how a person justifies it, it’s still bad, be it due to sexism, or ‘for better good’.

But we can’t dismiss biology, the same way we can’t dismiss sexism because it exists — both against women and men. Except we’re giving ‘sexism’ way more credit than it deserves, and ignoring biology, because feminism and social justice. No matter how much you explain it away, reality still won’t change to your liking, nor will patriarchy show up out of nowhere. It can’t be created with power of thought, thankfully, otherwise we’d be living in some version of human-made hell given how many feminists believe in it.

And that’s the point. People will rather discriminate against other people — something we already know is bad from history — and try to justify it — something we already know is bad, from history, rather than acknowledge the sole possibility that men and women could be… *gasp* different. Serena Williams thought she could beat a man in tennis — a man outside of top 200, so a 200-something man on the rank challenged her, drank beer, and half-assedly trashed both her and her sister.

“Braasch said afterwards, “500 and above, no chance”. He added that he had played like someone ranked 600th in order to keep the game “fun”. Braasch said the big difference was that men can chase down shots much easier, and that men put spin on the ball that the women can’t handle. The Williams sisters adjusted their claim to beating men outside the top 350.”

Given general — physical alone — differences between men and women exist… why is so outrageous to suggest that other differences exist as well — other than because of feminism?

Cheers.

P.S. (No, clit doesn’t become a penis. It’s actually a ‘blank slate’ — the default isn’t female. :) )

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