BBC 'No such thing as male and female brains'

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I can't really imagine how this article slipped through the oh so woke BBC net, unless nobody managed to join the dots between this and trans ideology, but I'm glad it did.

www.bbc.com/future/story/20190930-the-sexist-myths-about-gender-stereotypes-that-wont-die

Great article - thanks for posting.

Ha. Good one

Really enjoyable and informative read. A good resource, thank you.

Good article. Particularly interesting that gender stereotypes persist in other forms when refuted.

The big problem today is the transgender movement. They have to insist on dated sexist gender stereotypes in order to validate their claims of being the wrong sex or “born in the wrong body”.
This is what’s driving the rigid sex separation in children - if a girl likes football, short hair and trousers, she’s told she “must be a boy”, and pushed towards transition. In my day, she’d simply be accepted as a normal girl with her own choice of hobbies and clothes.

I think when something becomes a widely held belief its impossible to shift. My MIL was lecturing me about how I couldn't expect DH to remember birthdays and I should for him. I pointed out that having a penis doesn't affect your memory and she started going on about male brains and wasn't at all interested in the lack of scientific evidence.

What?!? How have the BBC allowed that through??! Fab article!!

There was something similar on woman's hour yesterday (??) as well. I was only half listening but it was an interview with Caroline Criado Perez and another women. The other woman made a good point about how everyone is obsessed with finding 'gender' differences in brains (because that will uphold the patriarchy) but they ignore sex differences in bodies (and treat women's bodies as 'outliers' to the male 'norm')

Just read the article. I think Gina Rippon was the other woman interviewed on woman's hour (^my previous post)

There is such a stubborn refusal among many (most?) people to believe that even from before birth boys and girls are treated differently, sometimes in quite subtle ways, and that it's those differences in expectations and experiences that lead to differences in later behaviour.

I think it would be super difficult to really raise an agender child, though, although much, much easier to raise a girl with fewer gender norms than it is a boy.

Boys being called Charlotte or wearing dresses and makeup are still definitely Not Ok while girls being called Charlie and having short hair and wearing jeans is fine.

I read Gina Rippon's The Gendered Brain recently and would highly recommend it.