Anonymous Question via Facebook: why do you hate feminism/women
I probably expected this one earlier than I got it. I covered some of the basics of why third-wave feminism is a farce in post #30 in this thread, and I don't think anyone wants to see me rehash that since it's not exactly entertaining. However, I should probably touch on the hating women comment.

It's generally claimed that I hate women and/or that I am sexist when I assert that men and women are not equal. Sexism against women is generally defined as unfair discrimination. I discriminate in no ways which are unfair. The simple fact of the matter is that men and women are biologically different in an extremely interesting number of ways. The narrative that men and women are the same other than the plumbing is a joke, and that idea that the source of traditional roles for men and women are a result of cultural conditioning instead of biology is easy to disprove.

Since I'm not really looking to write a novella here, I'll give one simple piece of information that can be used as a basis for doing your own research if you are so inclined: The makeup of a man's brain is extremely different than the makeup of a woman's brain. This single fact by itself can very easily help to explain a lot of things that are considered evidence of sexism against women like the so-called wage gap. Here is a very short list of the numerous ways in which the brains are different to get you started thinking on this:

  • The differences in overall, general intelligence between men and women are essentially nothing
  • A man's brain is about 10 percent larger on average.
  • A man's brain contains between 600 and 700 percent more grey matter than women.
  • A woman's brain contains between 900 and 1,000 percent more white matter than men.

Men and women also use different parts of their brains for the same task. A great example is navigation:

"Women use the cerebral cortex for solving problems that require navigational skills. Men use an entirely different area, mainly the left hippocampus -- a nucleus deep inside the brain that's not activated in the women's brains during navigational tasks," Geary tells WebMD. The hippocampus, he explains, automatically codes where you are in space. As a result, Geary says: "Women are more likely to rely on landmark cues: they might suggest you turn at the 7-11 and make a right at the church, whereas men are more likely to navigate via depth reckoning -- go east, then west, etc." (Source)
So how does this apply to the alleged wage gap? Generally speaking, the wage gap is this notion that women tend to make somewhere in the range of 70-80 percent of the amount that men make. Some people like to suggest that this is because of discrimination against women, but the fact of the matter is that there are only two main sources for this difference:

  • Women prefer to go into different types of jobs as men (largely related to the brain differences)
  • Women tend to be less aggressive in negotiating pay (largely related to the brain differences)

The only way that we're going to do better for both men and women as a culture is if we get over this "everybody should be equal" shit and start really embracing these differences in a way that allows for better forms of education. One example is the pure and simple fact that boys and girls should be taught in different ways because they are so different. It's not fair to expect boys to sit still during seven hours of class each day and then drug them if they aren't able to do it. It's also not fair to expect girls to perform on the same level as boys in mathematics at early ages because girls tend to lag behind an average of four years in those types of subjects in the early years (feel free to look that one up since I didn't just pull it out of my ass).

Boys and girls both have weaknesses in education because of biological differences. Instead of trying to force everyone into the same mold and dragging down the performance of the entire group, boys and girls should be educated separately but socialized together for the most part, at least at the earlier ages of up to 12 or 13 or so. A lot of people bitch that there aren't "enough" women in STEM fields, but if you stop trying to expect them to be on the same level as boys at age 12 (which correlates to a boy's mind for mathematics at about age 8), then you'll stop making them think like they "aren't good at math" which will go a long way towards fixing those problems.