spuded
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on social construction though, i reckon what we think has to play a role along with how our brains actually work. our language, history, traditions, economy, religion, etc, etc, etc. all mediate how our bodies perceive and experience the world. i think that while biological gender differences are very relevant and that they must have some influence over what we do and how we behave, there are often big logical jumps made. science has a great history of explaining things away (that includes the social sciences).
surely the point of science is to give us a snapshot of where our understanding on these issues is at a certain place in time, most scientific experiment is based around trying to disprove what has gone before it. But surely the basis of science and therein social science and the findings of such give us a far more logical understanding of things than simple philosophical pondering.
I agree that environment and religion and millions of other factors make people who they are but there are basic hormonal and neurological differences between the sexes make ups. people seem to freak out at the concept of this, that difference somehow means better or worse but it doesn't.