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23 Nov 2011, 5:45 am

I still think his 'Asperger's systemise too much' thesis is correct.
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19 Jan 2012, 4:28 pm

What happened with this? I didn't see any post about it.



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19 Feb 2012, 9:27 pm

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19 Feb 2012, 10:31 pm

Rational wrote:
What happened with this? I didn't see any post about it.

i am sure the interview is public somewhere if it was performed by a legitimate interviewer or researcher. if you are interested in knowing, maybe send a PM to the OP in case he isn't getting notifications from the thread.


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20 Feb 2012, 6:29 am

VMSmith wrote:
ask him how the fudge his (sexist and cis-sexist) extreme male brain theory explains autistic transwomen. how does it explain this group of people who reject identifying with the masculine? don't let him give a vague answer or avoid it like a politician. i want to see what that neurosexist worm has to say.


It is utterly ridiculous to consider it sexist to acknowledge that differences exist between male and female brains.

Next you'll be trying to say that it's sexist to believe that only males have penises.

I despise people like you. :roll:



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20 Feb 2012, 7:29 am

Well--if you want to get technical about it, some males don't have penises, either because of injury or because they're transgender.

That there are differences between male and female brains is obvious. One does have to remember that these differences are on average, and far overshadowed by the difference between two individual brains of any gender.

If brains were numbers, it would be something like this:
Male: 1, 4, 8, 13
Female: 2, 5, 9, 11

The averages are slightly different. The range is bigger for male than female. But compare two individuals, and the difference between them will be far bigger than the fourth-of-a-point difference in averages due to gender.


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20 Feb 2012, 9:31 am

Certainly there are exceptions to the rule, but the simple acknowledgement of the rule is not "sexist". The genders can be considered equal, but equality does not mean they are the same, and that there are no legitimate differences. The penis is a male organ, it's a fact of life.

Sorry, I'm derailing the thread. :roll: