men have a wider curve, women a narrower, peakier curve, which means more men will be clustered on either end of the curve
This gets repeated a lot but the actual truth is that the mean of men, for something like 'engineering ability', is greater than the mean for women, not just the variance. It is a male skill, and so men tend to be better at it. If you were talking about 'navigating complex social hierarchies', then of course the mean for women would be greater than men, because that is a feminine skill. Saying that men are women only differ in terms of the 'variance' for various 'masculine' intellectual abilities, rather than the mean, is feminist propaganda. Go on, ask a woman to read a map or navigate her way around a completely new area and see how well she goes.
In fact the whole tweet is very telling. The woman is complaining that the men in an engineering department are acting like men instead of women. The men are focusing on improving their engineering skills to rise up in the male competence hierarchy, how bizarre! And a woman not liking the engineering department because the men aren't acting like women and building some kind of ridiculous female social hierarchy? How could it be! Feminists told me that men and women are identical in every way (except men are more evil), so it can't be true.
Pussyfooting around it doesn't work. Men have to stop doing that and just say "I'm better at it than you. Yes, because I'm a man. You go and do the things you're good at and I'll do what I'm good at."
This gets repeated a lot but the actual truth is that the mean of men, for something like 'engineering ability', is greater than the mean for women, not just the variance. It is a male skill, and so men tend to be better at it. If you were talking about 'navigating complex social hierarchies', then of course the mean for women would be greater than men, because that is a feminine skill. Saying that men are women only differ in terms of the 'variance' for various 'masculine' intellectual abilities, rather than the mean, is feminist propaganda. Go on, ask a woman to read a map or navigate her way around a completely new area and see how well she goes.
In fact the whole tweet is very telling. The woman is complaining that the men in an engineering department are acting like men instead of women. The men are focusing on improving their engineering skills to rise up in the male competence hierarchy, how bizarre! And a woman not liking the engineering department because the men aren't acting like women and building some kind of ridiculous female social hierarchy? How could it be! Feminists told me that men and women are identical in every way (except men are more evil), so it can't be true.
Pussyfooting around it doesn't work. Men have to stop doing that and just say "I'm better at it than you. Yes, because I'm a man. You go and do the things you're good at and I'll do what I'm good at."