Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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Paul
2008-09-06 21:13:42

You forget about “gender” and “sex.” Among the academic and media (“communications”) intelligentsia, it was decided about twenty-five years ago that there are no significant physical or physiological differences between women and men. Such differences as exist are mental and behavioral, not biological: e.g., women are nurturing, caring, non-violent, subtle, and relationship-centered, while men are self-centered, competitive, violent, direct, and insensitive. These are the differences represented by the term “gender.” There are no “sex” differences that matter. “Sex” is socially constructed. And I am a Martian stamp collector, cleverly disguised as one of you “humans.”