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[–]weakfantasy 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Daphne Joel is not nearly the only neuroscientist that criticizes stereotypical ideas about brain sex. The very black and white, women are from venus and men are from mars vision of male/female brains has been even more strongly critiqued in the last decades with the discovery that many areas of the brain are not sexually dimorphic. I think you are also misrepresenting that stance, which is that radfems and those neuroscientists don't deny sex differences, but the way that they are grossly distorted in popular culture, from the 1800s where they found women's brains to be lighter and therefore it was decided it made them inferior, to the point that men think they have female brains if they have traits associated with women. Some good reading : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627311010439 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151029185544.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170117135943.htm https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-male-vs-female-brains-1.5326598 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/is-the-brain-gendereda-q-a-with-harvard-s-catherine-dulac/

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Whole male/female brain idea is the basis of current gender ideology. While oldschool transsexuals had no deal with it at all.

[–]reluctant_commenter 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

which is that radfems and those neuroscientists don't deny sex differences,

I don't know about radfems, but neuroscientists and gender psychology researchers definitely used to.

The articles you listed are quite recent. I'm glad things are moving more in a direction of nuance, seems like it's sorely needed. I'll take a look.