It’s that even if men and women are fundamentally, innately different, they’re also really, really similar. Even in testing that found sex differences in general intelligence, men and women overlap A LOT on a bellcurve (there’s a research article by Jackson and Rushton (I forget the year it was written) that takes the position that women have less intellectual potential than men, but even their graphs and numbers betray a large overlap). What this means is that sex differences in intelligence are actually really worthless to understanding how to better educate either sex. The fact that the discrepancies, like men who are good at writing and women who are good at math, make research on differences useless and even detrimental. If you assume a student is going to be in one category when they are, in fact, predisposed to another, then you’ve just basically looked at someone’s chromosomes or genitalia and doomed them to a life of studying in a way that does not suit or benefit them at all (like forcing lefties to write right-handed, for a loose sort of example). I see less of a threat to social/political policy when examining specific cognitive abilities in men and women. But general intelligence research is both flawed and possesses a lot of potential to do great harm to either or both sexes (particularly women, as this research happens to be conducted predominantly by those with an investment in maleness).

Other than that, I feel like a lot of the statements above fundamentally misunderstand the role feminism plays in my life, though I can’t speak for others. Clearly women are treated as less-than-equal in the public sphere of life, but it’s interesting to observe that men faces similar, complementary challenges in the private realm. Not to mention those who do not fall into either category, male or female.

But perhaps that’s neither here nor there.

http://toddseavey.com/brief-statement-of-principles/#comment-1295

I have created a pro-men website and was wondering if you would consider listing it as an external link on your site. I will be happy to add a reciprocal link back to your site in return. Thankyou for your consideration.

http://www.genderwar.org