Social aptitude? But the greatest leaders and organisers in history are men.
The greatest leaders would not have been that if they had empathy, which is what women have more of. And which, unfortunately, makes them easier to manipulate in our day and age.
Child rearing? Single mother households are a plague on society.
But women have raised kids throughout history, and done that quite well.
But when I really sit and think about it, that's the long and short of what "women are best at".
You're looking at 'the best' though. And given the extreme IQ distributions of men, 'the best' of anything will likely be men. But that does not mean that women, on average, cannot be better at something even when 'the best' are still men. And judging people by averages is also bad, because then we would have to conclude that Thomas Sowell is an idiot, because blacks, on average, are less interested in learning.
Regardless, if we're going to argue that there are differences between the sexes, because it is true, you can lace it with a bit of sugar to sweeten the pill, which would otherwise be indigestible. People don't like to hear that they are inferior because of their biology, even if it's true. Which I don't think your argument claims or shows, but it will certainly sound like it to anyone who is on that side of it.
Why does everyone mistake empathy with sympathy. I have yet to meet an empathetic woman in my entire life, they cannot perceive emotions they don’t have. Women are sympathetic, this is why they have cry circles in Congress. Pity parties are not empathetic, stoicism is empathetic, learning to understand emotions and control them are empathy.
The difference between empathy and sympathy was one of the first concepts they tried to drill into us during the first week of med school (though admittedly, I still have a hard time putting the concept into words).
I would describe the difference as it's important for a doctor to have empathy for patients - to put be able to put themselves in a patient's shoes to appreciate emotions, motivations, reactions that an average person would experience in a situation, even if you have never experienced it yourself.
But it's still their disease, not yours. And you still have to get shit done. So a doctor should strive to be empathetic (to appreciate and understand) but not sympathetic (to commiserate) because you have shit you have to do and can't go down the rabbit hole with them.
A surgeon has to make incisions and cause their patient pain. A pediatrician has to give childhood vaccines to a screaming infant. A geriatrician has to take the driver's license away from their demented senior. A psychiatrist has to lock up the paranoid schizophrenic.
But women have raised kids throughout history, and done that quite well.
You've missed the point.
Yes, women have successfully raised children throughout history, but that doesn't necessarily mean they were "better at it" than men. It might simply mean that women defaulted to domestic labor because they were not as suited for the more dangerous and difficult taaks of hunting, building, fighting, etc.
Here's a modern corollary: in tech industries, women are massively overrepresented in HR and community management. Is this because women are better in these departments? Or is it because tech companies are staring down the barrel of socially and legally enforced gender quotas, and the aforementioned positions are the only places you can stash large numbers of female employees? Are women better at every indoor job with air conditioning and a zero percent chance of death?
The greatest leaders would not have been that if they had empathy, which is what women have more of. And which, unfortunately, makes them easier to manipulate in our day and age.
But women have raised kids throughout history, and done that quite well.
You're looking at 'the best' though. And given the extreme IQ distributions of men, 'the best' of anything will likely be men. But that does not mean that women, on average, cannot be better at something even when 'the best' are still men. And judging people by averages is also bad, because then we would have to conclude that Thomas Sowell is an idiot, because blacks, on average, are less interested in learning.
Regardless, if we're going to argue that there are differences between the sexes, because it is true, you can lace it with a bit of sugar to sweeten the pill, which would otherwise be indigestible. People don't like to hear that they are inferior because of their biology, even if it's true. Which I don't think your argument claims or shows, but it will certainly sound like it to anyone who is on that side of it.
Why does everyone mistake empathy with sympathy. I have yet to meet an empathetic woman in my entire life, they cannot perceive emotions they don’t have. Women are sympathetic, this is why they have cry circles in Congress. Pity parties are not empathetic, stoicism is empathetic, learning to understand emotions and control them are empathy.
The difference between empathy and sympathy was one of the first concepts they tried to drill into us during the first week of med school (though admittedly, I still have a hard time putting the concept into words).
I would describe the difference as it's important for a doctor to have empathy for patients - to put be able to put themselves in a patient's shoes to appreciate emotions, motivations, reactions that an average person would experience in a situation, even if you have never experienced it yourself.
But it's still their disease, not yours. And you still have to get shit done. So a doctor should strive to be empathetic (to appreciate and understand) but not sympathetic (to commiserate) because you have shit you have to do and can't go down the rabbit hole with them.
A surgeon has to make incisions and cause their patient pain. A pediatrician has to give childhood vaccines to a screaming infant. A geriatrician has to take the driver's license away from their demented senior. A psychiatrist has to lock up the paranoid schizophrenic.
I always thought this scene from Scrubs illustrated the concept
You've missed the point.
Yes, women have successfully raised children throughout history, but that doesn't necessarily mean they were "better at it" than men. It might simply mean that women defaulted to domestic labor because they were not as suited for the more dangerous and difficult taaks of hunting, building, fighting, etc.
Here's a modern corollary: in tech industries, women are massively overrepresented in HR and community management. Is this because women are better in these departments? Or is it because tech companies are staring down the barrel of socially and legally enforced gender quotas, and the aforementioned positions are the only places you can stash large numbers of female employees? Are women better at every indoor job with air conditioning and a zero percent chance of death?