"There are some key biological distinctions that you’re strangely overlooking. Menstruation, for example. Women all across the globe endure intense cramping on a monthly basis for decades on end, combined with the attendant, habitual bleeding. That men will never, ever be able empathize with this is a significant difference in their respective, lived experiences. Men don’t give birth, will never breastfeed nor ever be in a position to seriously consider the possibility; men have no idea what it’s like to have breasts, or to have men (mostly) salivating over their tits&ass (which men the world ‘round do, will continue to do, and probably have done since time immemorial). Women, on the other hand, can only imagine what it’s like to have a penis, what it’s like to wake up every morning with an erection, have that thing dangling there all the time; women can’t empathize with the alpha hierarchy that exists on subtle social levels among men, and is a part of every human social society ever studied anywhere ever (western culture in no way at all has the market cornered on this — read anthropology)."
Why bother to go into a long dissertation about this and say that I'm overlooking it if you don't believe it's relevant to my whole premise - which is that different brains don't have different aptitudes and abilities based on the sex of the body they are in. It’s literally the whole and only point of the essay.
Also, my field of specialty is ancient anthropology and the study of social hierarchy in particular, and you are totally off base on that front as well.
"women can’t empathize with the alpha hierarchy that exists on subtle social levels among men, and is a part of every human social society ever studied anywhere ever (western culture in no way at all has the market cornered on this — read anthropology)."
Enforced egalitarianism is a key element of human evolution and even today in mobile band hunter-gatherer groups, it still takes place. Anybody who gets ideas about hierarchy gets teased, ignored, or otherwise toppled off their high horse until they remember that they are not above anyone else. There are no chiefs or head men, and that's the way humans lived for 97% of history. They are vehemently egalitarian, in part because they are fiercely against somebody else telling them what to do. Social hierarchy is a feature of patriarchy - a social system that's only been around for about 5k years and one that is prevalent but not a part of every culture in the world. Matrilineal cultures don't really operate this way either because they focus more on cooperation and the balance between men and women.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/g28565280/matriarchal-societies-list/
