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| Bad Gender Science part 2058475: But women really ARE different than men! by Zseni 08/30/2007, 4:50am PDT | ||||
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| WOMEN really are better than men at shopping. And they really do prefer pink. And, surprisingly, it is possible that these facts are connected. The first conclusion was drawn by Joshua New of Yale University and his colleagues. The second was drawn by Anya Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling of Newcastle University in England. The connecting theme is that in the division of labour that forms the primordial bargain of human hunter-gatherer societies, it is the men who do the hunting and the women who do the gathering.
The article contains a ton of corkers like: "In other words, women's minds are specialised for their ancestral task of gathering the sort of food that cannot run away." The article (and study) blabber on about senses of direction in an urban farmer's market, protests that the women are no more familiar with it than the men, and draws from these findings the smug conclusion that a duck moves and a blackberry bush doesn't. In other words, human evolution was essentially complete at the hunter-gatherer phase, and 10,000 years of Market Days have not engrained upon any woman an "ancestral" memory of a market. THIS NOTWITHSTANDING THE FACT THAT: you can pick blackberry scrub clean in a few hours and that you can rely on finding trout in a pond where you have found trout before, boars where boar territory is, hedgehogs in a hedgehog den. "Moreover, though anatomical sex is binary, mental “gender” is more pliable. To see how masculine or feminine the brains of their participants were, Dr Hurlbert and Dr Ling used what is known as the Bem Sex Role Inventory, which asks about personality traits more often associated with one sex than the other. This showed that the more feminine a brain was, regardless of the body it inhabited, the more it liked red and pink." So in other words, the more stereotypically "female" a person is, the more likely they are to favor pink. THANKS, SCIENCE. By the way, this directly contradicts the hunter-gatherer stopped-evolutionary-clock theory and replaces it with sko homeopathic gender assignment where people who have female brains act like women, whether or not they are women. "All this suggests a biological, rather than a cultural, explanation for colour preference. " I can't believe this conclusion came out of anything on the planet. 1. The gatherers, when people were still hunting-gathering, were women 2. Berries are red 3. People who score "female" on the Bem Sexy Inventory like pink and red THEREFORE: there is a biological basis for the FACT that women like pink We totally ignore the hysterical caveat that the body of test subjects were 20-something Chinese people (guess what color Chinese people like?) and the Bem Sexparts Countdown is firmly grounded in American sexual mores, and provide only the usual restatement in equivalents: 1. There are many races, but only one can be the master race. 2. The master race will have the biggest brains. 3. Children who score well on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale more likely to be Caucasian than any other race. THEREFORE: there is a biological basis for the FACT that Caucasians are the Master Race. This comparison is relevant because: the fundamental assumption (point 1) is both debatable and useless in both cases; the natural basis (point 2) for the biological "truth" in both cases is shady (blackberries? blueberries? NON BERRY FOOD POSSIBLY? Maybe fallen-walnut brown is an "allied shade?"); the pudding in which the proof is contained (point 3) depends on standardized tests which are optimized for white middle-class Americans. "An evolved preference for red, pink and allied shades—particularly in contrast with green—could thus bring advantage to those who gather such things. And if they can also remember which tree (or stall) to go and visit next time, then so much the better." What happens when natural scientists gather everything they know about nature from hunting and gathering.... in Morrowind? |
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