Grr, I got most of the way through drafting a long post about this article on brain sex differences when I discovered that the article in question had gone behind a paywall between my starting my post and being ready to publish it. Somebody posted it on Twitter, I think ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gool_duck but now I can't find the link I was looking for, so perhaps it was somebody else?
My point was going to be that I think it might be an interesting starting point for discussion with people who justify sexism because sex differences have a supposedly innate or biological basis. Eliot doesn't sound as polemically feminist as people like, say, Cordelia Fine or Deborah Cameron, both writers I strongly admire, but that's coming from the standpoint of someone who basically accepts their conclusions already. But since the article has now been hidden from public view, I can't discover whether I'm right that it might be more persuasive to a skeptical reader. Most annoying; I really do hate charging readers for access to scientific papers.
Anyway, the bit of my post that I'd already written compared Eliot's article with the NYT article about dieting that everybody was linking to at the end of last year. So I've put the half-written post behind the cut since I think the topic is still at least somewhat interesting even without the key point I wanted to make.
( truncated post, mentions dieting and body image )
gool_duck but now I can't find the link I was looking for, so perhaps it was somebody else?My point was going to be that I think it might be an interesting starting point for discussion with people who justify sexism because sex differences have a supposedly innate or biological basis. Eliot doesn't sound as polemically feminist as people like, say, Cordelia Fine or Deborah Cameron, both writers I strongly admire, but that's coming from the standpoint of someone who basically accepts their conclusions already. But since the article has now been hidden from public view, I can't discover whether I'm right that it might be more persuasive to a skeptical reader. Most annoying; I really do hate charging readers for access to scientific papers.
Anyway, the bit of my post that I'd already written compared Eliot's article with the NYT article about dieting that everybody was linking to at the end of last year. So I've put the half-written post behind the cut since I think the topic is still at least somewhat interesting even without the key point I wanted to make.
( truncated post, mentions dieting and body image )
