Next time someone tells you radical feminists are EXACTLY THE SAME as right wing conservatives.
Reblogging this without the additional trainwreck commentary by trans/genderists. From them explaining their ‘pro-trans’ arguments with outdated, disproved brain sex theory, also known as neurosexism; a kind of sexist pseudo-brain science (like “Negro brain”, or race brain theory which is a form of scientific racism or neuroracism a.k.a racist brain science). To them arguing that biological sex is absolutely changeable and gender is innate; their usual gender essentialism.
“The genderists boldly state their belief in “brain sex” and the immortal, even cosmic, nature of femininity. White supremacists are the only people who believe in the “Negro brain.” But talk of “lady brains” is completely accepted across progressive communities if it comes from genderists.”— Weekend Edition June 21-23, 2013, The Same Sexual Threats, the Same Silence for Women, The Emperor’s New Penis by LIERRE KEITH and DERRICK JENSEN
So headache inducing, trans-’queer’ PoMo bullshit.
Sources to debunk brain sex theory and neurosexism:
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[If and when they are “gendered” or “sexed” differences between men and women, it can be attributed to socialization and neuroplasticity. Not characteristics and differences that are concrete, fixed, inevitable, essential, and innate].
“We know from other studies that from birth parents treat boys and girls differently. Parents will overestimate a boy’s crawling abilities and underestimate a girl’s [x]. The differences go on and on but to put it simply, when a parent thinks they are holding a girl they hold it more gently, they will give it dolls as opposed to a football (though the infant has preference towards neither) [x]. Genderists have the cause and effect backwards.Girls do not have a “different brain structure” because of our chromosomes, it is different because since infancy our environment is made to be different. In childhood this continues and we become witness to a self fulfilling prophesy. … Girls are given an “enriched environment” in that they are expected to show empathy. For boys their “enrichment” comes in the form of stimulating toys instead of dolls and pretend kitchens. This doesn’t mean a boy can’t fight his environment and prefer dolls, but that doesn’t mean he is suddenly a girl, it means his preferences were different than what was expected out of him. Girls and boys don’t even have an increased likelihood of liking dolls or trucks it is 100% self fulfilling prophecy. If you start a kid young enough they will never have a chance to really explore their likes and dislikes, they just blindly trust their caregivers. TL;DR: Cause and effect is backwards. Socialization causes brain differences, brain differences don’t cause gender.” - Charlie@RadFem-Answers
Male and female brains aren’t wired differently→ You know that phrase “think like a man”? According to a new study, it means absolutely nothing.In 2014, researchers found some physical differences between men’s and women’s brains — specifically that men’s brains on average are larger in volume. But new research, published in October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that despite the size discrepancy, there’s no functional difference between men’s and women’s brains. “Male” brains and “female” brains simply don’t exist. In fact, both men and women display brain “features” of the opposite sex.Perhaps “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” is a myth we can finally put to bed.
Male/female brain differences? Big data says not so much→ Meta-analysis is a statistical technique that allows researchers to combine the findings from many independent studies into a comprehensive review. The team examined findings from 76 published papers, involving more than 6,000 healthy individuals.“Sex differences in the brain are irresistible to those looking to explain stereotypic differences between men and women,” said Dr. Eliot. “They often make a big splash, in spite of being based on small samples. But as we explore multiple datasets and are able to coalesce very large samples of males and females, we find these differences often disappear or are trivial.”
Brain sex does not exist→ Neuroscience is methodologically flawed. Even when an effect is objectively measurable, small sample sizes and poor statistical significance plague brain imaging studies. Most results are not replicable and, often, the alleged “findings” are not even based on human research. Extrapolating functional or behavior qualities from these studies is logically tenuous at best.
The great sex swindle - There is little evidence of real differences between the male and female brains, writes Catherine Armitage: The idea that biological differences in male and female brains give rise to different behaviours, aptitudes and learning styles has recently become firmly lodged in the public brain, thanks to reams of research endorsed in scores of popular science books. … But, given the “daunting complexity” of brain function, which depends on distributed neural networks and a dizzying array of connections, synaptic functions and neurotransmitter systems, it is “fantastically ambitious” to try to relate any subtle brain differences to psychological function. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
