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self-loving-vampire:

It turns out that actually standing by “men and women are not inherently very different” is a reliable way to bother absolutely everyone. Left or right, cis or trans, feminist or misogynist, all cling to the binary for dear life.

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Reply by kt--extinction on July 3rd 2025: Though all children have a lot of variation in personality, that one year I did help with a woodwork camp with prepubescent children, i did notice an obvious trend when it came to hammering nails. Though about equal amounts of boys and girls did just fine, the ones who struggled did it differently. The girls were hitting too lightly, and boys were hitting really inprecisely. I knew they where too young for hormones to be involved with strength, so I figured it to conditioning. I thought back to the broken toy horses and doll houses vs the oft-stepped on toy dinosaurs of my childhood and considered the relative durabilty of the toys they were probably given and what play styles where probably encouraged. The advice that helped the girls struggling was "hit it like you're trying to break it" and for the struggling boys it was "slow down and focus". Though it is in no way universal, a lot of behaviors are reinforced or punished in us differently depending on what gender we're assigned. I feel like that causes most of the differences, not some inherent brain chemistry.ALT

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