X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fpeering-through-reverent-fingers.md;h=51dbede4359bfc4f229c3480ef9cfa078b12e201;hp=32787c7dd70f7a8c27fa9e59fcadd375a79b0838;hb=210bca9d46cd96b83ffb1edf84f408083308dfe7;hpb=75e885d36519d186d7eb35cddfc6414756ec6632 diff --git a/content/drafts/peering-through-reverent-fingers.md b/content/drafts/peering-through-reverent-fingers.md index 32787c7..51dbede 100644 --- a/content/drafts/peering-through-reverent-fingers.md +++ b/content/drafts/peering-through-reverent-fingers.md @@ -8,11 +8,8 @@ As an atheist, I'm not really a fan of religions, but I'll give them one thing: The progressive _Zeitgeist_ does not even offer this respite. Getting over psychological-sex-differences denialism was painful, but after many years of study and meditation, I think I've finally come to accept the horrible truth: women and men really are psychologically different, and for biologically- and not merely culturally-mediated reasons. This sets me apart from the community, but not very much. -The original lie wasn't _invisible_ exactly, but it never caused too many problems, because it's easy to doublethink around: most of the functional use of sex categories in Society is handled by seamless subconscious reference-classing, without anyone needing to consciously, verbally reason about sex differences. +The original lie wasn't _invisible_ exactly, but it never caused too many problems, because it's easy to doublethink around: most of the functional use of sex categories in Society is handled by seamless subconscious reference-classing, without anyone needing to consciously, verbally reason about sex differences. Women and men don't actually behave the same and we don't actually treat them the same, but -Give people photographs of - -[height base rates] But in the ten years I had my back turned reading science books, my former quasi-religion somehow came up with _new_ lies: now, it's not enough to believe that women and men are mentally the same, you're also supposed to accept that those words refer to