Science Newslink: How We Inherit Masculine And Feminine Behaviors: A New Idea About Environment And Genes 🔬

Men and Women

The now infamous Google memo, written by engineer James Damore, has inflamed longstanding debates about the differences between women and men.
Everyone, including Damore, acknowledges the role of our social environment in shaping gender differences. Ideas about which jobs are “women-appropriate”, the pressures placed on men to take up “manly” roles – these experiences, expectations and opportunities can impact how we perform our gender.
But it is commonly believed that biological differences between the sexes create average differences in behaviour that even equal environments won’t overcome.

Full article in Futursim: https://futurism.com/how-we-inherit-masculine-and-feminine-behaviors-a-new-idea-about-environment-and-genes/

Thanks for sharing this, for to me it is yet another example of negligent scholarship and disinformation. The authors of the article state that "The possibility that a key role of our genetic inheritance is in learning gender from our surrounding culture supports organisational initiatives in favour of gender balance.

The down side is that the prevalence of “gendering” environments means that many relevant aspects of the environment have to change in order for gender patterns to significantly shift at the population level."

However, the truth is that as a society we have been skewing our environments in favor of a particular gender - females- and one gender has been suffering tremendously as a result - males.

And gender patterns certainly have shifted at a population level but given that our perceptions are distorted by Feminist-ideology few seem to be able to perceive these shifts. For example, suicide rates for teen-boys in Australia have tripled in the past 30 years!

Now, I don't suspect that boys suddenly developed a genetic mutation that increased their self-loathing and their inability to cope with reality but rather that the environment they now find themselves in has grown increasingly hostile towards them. If biological differences were negligible then shouldn't we expect suicide rates for girls to increase also? Furthermore, boys are diagnosed with ADHD and ADD at much higher rates than girls - four out of five diagnoses are for boys. Again, if biology didn't matter why such stark differences?

Females now outgraduate males, a fact that is rarely mentioned since we seem obsessed with tweaking the social world in favour of females. But males are dropping out at increasing numbers because our entire system of education caters to female-preferred styles of learning. If it wasn't geared to females and if it didn't matter then graduation rates would have remained the same, no?

Clearly, whatever social engineering we are now engaged in is adversely impacting our boys - they opt to kill themselves at higher rates, they're failing at school, they are being diagnosed with sham-illnesses and drugged into numbness - and if gender didn't matter then no one gender would decline so significantly. This insight seems patently obvious, yet it eludes those who must be cheering at another boy dropping out or hanging himself!