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(DIR) Post #AyRcI5OErtQI2ry49I by JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw
2025-09-21T20:38:17Z
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Scholarly complaint: Psychologists need to stop talking about men and women like they are different species.Psychologists, when talking about demonstrated gender differences, have a really bad habit of physiologically essentializing the differences and talking about men and women not like part of a spectrum of diversity of human embodiment and experience, but like they are different animals. It makes me want to scream.This also is where we often see evolutionary psychology as a discipline go completely off the rails into misogyny land. Whenever I read the "hypothesis" an evolutionary psychologist puts forward on gender differences, it sounds like they have never spoken to an anthropologist. Instead, their assumed evolutionary pressures look more like the Flinstones than anything that actually ever happened. Like, my colleagues in social science, just go across the hall and speak to an anthropologist for 10 minutes please!!!
(DIR) Post #AyRcI6TapTIfPlTr8K by cy@fedicy.us.to
2025-09-21T22:14:20Z
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inb4 people accuse you of attacking women by demanding that men be admitted into their safe spaces.
(DIR) Post #AyRcICvopRRXR2jTxg by JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw
2025-09-21T20:45:33Z
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Case in point:"Throughout evolutionary history, women have not been as physically capable as men of fighting off aggressors; also, because they have had primary responsibility for their offspring, they have not always been able to run from an aggressor."Um...so any anthropologist will point you towards the hundreds of hunter-gatherer and small agricultural societies they have studied that suggest low rates of intra-community aggression, high rates of EVERYONE taking care of children, and being much more likely to be matriarchal or matrilineal in structure. This was most of our evolutionary history before large-scale, settled agriculture and the formation of states. Like....they are picturing Hobbes' State of Nature and not any real time or place that has ever existed!!!The emphasis on differences in "physical capabilities" hit much harder with the invention of the plow and other types of activities that required more upper-body muscle. Archeological studies suggest much greater exposure to human violence after settled agriculture begins too, with the formation of states leading to full-on war instead of symbolic inter-clan fights or livestock raids.Heck, there are even settled cultures like the Mosuo where men are more likely to be taking care of children!(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo)
(DIR) Post #AyRcIKGdYRFsBdWhsm by JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw
2025-09-21T20:46:34Z
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Okay, rant over. Just...if you are in psychology, please take at least one anthropology class....I'm begging you.Or go make friends with an anthropologist even! We love to infodump about cultures and social structures! It's like...literally what the entire field is about.
(DIR) Post #AyRcIRg40IklAWTbzE by JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw
2025-09-21T20:48:05Z
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Seriously, go read an anthropology paper. It's basically just a nerd being like, "So, um, I spent a year living with these cool people and here's all the interesting things we did and they told me about....and here's their lore and backstories and rituals and..."