Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readMar 15, 2022

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This is complete and utter bullshit. There is no reputable neuroscience that supports this. Men and women may operate differently in some situations, but that is due to cultural expectations. We know this because they are different in different cultures.

"As Harvard University psychologist Mahzarin Banaji puts it, there is no “bright line separating self from culture,” and the culture in which we develop and function enjoys a “deep reach” into our minds.39 It’s for this reason that we can’t understand gender differences in female and male minds—the minds that are the source of our thoughts, feelings, abilities, motivations, and behavior—without understanding how psychologically permeable is the skull that separates the mind from the sociocultural context in which it operates. When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender, and stereotypes and social expectations become more prominent in the mind. This can change self-perception, alter interests, debilitate or enhance ability, and trigger unintentional discrimination. In other words, the social context influences who you are, how you think, and what you do." (emphasis mine)

Fine, Cordelia. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference . W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

Once again, The Good Men Project is falling prey to gender essentialism - something that is completely antithetical to their mission. I'd stop reading, but it's too important to counter this sort of pseudoscientific rhetoric.

Men and women in Western relationships may indeed tend to operate in particular ways due to how they have been socialized, but please don't say (with no scientific support, I might add) that this is due to biological differences or the ways that men and women reason. It's really irresponsible and also completely antithetical to what The Good Men Project purports to stand for.

Edit: In response to this comment and other follow-up, the above sentence was removed in favor of one that hypothesizes that gender differences in thinking result from how boys and girls are socialized.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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