We Are Not Helping Boys Get Through Puberty
Article here. Excerpt:
'To a significant degree, it is the persistence of blank slate views of masculinity and femininity, despite the increasing acceptance of evolutionary psychology in other areas, that accounts for why our societies have been failing boys and young men for decades now.
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Biological essentialism has an understandably bad name.
The subsequent reaction against it, however, has made it impossible to discuss virtually any biologically based differences between men and women. Take, for instance, the robust finding, widely reproduced in many studies and across cultures, that men on average tend to be more interested in things than people, while for women the reverse holds true (Su et al., 2009). In 2017, James Damore was fired from Google after he wrote and internally distributed a 10-page memo discussing this very point.'
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