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Robert Wright on feminism

Wednesday 16th July 2008 20:18 in Human Relations, Society

Not all of the tenets of feminism were misguided and damaging to society, but Robert Wright lays into one that certainly was here in “The Moral Animal“, which I’m thoroughly enjoying…

“One long-standard and utterly non-Darwinian doctrine of psychology - that there are no important innate mental differences between men and women bearing on courtship and sex [q.f. Germaine Greer] - seems to have caused a fair amount of suffering over the past few decades. And it depended on the lowest imaginable “standards of evidence” - no real evidence whatsoever, not to mention the blatant and arrogant disregard of folk wisdom in every culture on the planet.”

I find it insulting to women and blatantly anti-feminist that such an absurd theory was ever advanced in the first place. The differences between men and women should be celebrated, not denied, and oddities shouldn’t be presented as the norm. I suggest that if this idiocy of the 1970s had not occurred, society would not be in the state it finds itself now.

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