Reading about cognitive sex differences between men and women makes me feel bad about transitioning. There are positives and negatives but the thought of getting worse at things I care about just overwhelms everything else. It also feels heretical and treacherous to admit that men dominate certain fields because they're biologically predisposed to do better at them on average. Assertiveness, risk-taking and emotional resilience explain a lot by themselves. "You get to be less evil and better with words lol" feels like a lousy consolation prize. For me and for women in general.
Like, I know some of these differences are probably more closely connected to prenatal hormone levels than to current ones, but we don't really know what works how and it's worrying. A lot of trans girls say HRT affected them in many strange ways so who knows.
>study indicates women or men are better at one thing or another doesn't mean shit without isolated variables. all the participants in the studies were raised in a society that treats boys and girls differently, and so their abilities and life have been affected
Kayden Ramirez
I mean, yeah. HRT made me happier already. It made me sharper, too. Probably because I'm trans and I need it lol. I'm just bummed by the potential downsides. Bummed by what all of this implies about gender relations in general, really.
Jacob Morgan
nobodies making you transition personally tho, not being an emotionless robot that only thinks about sex is a pretty big improvement
Oliver Ortiz
Uh user, women are pushed to go into STEM but despite all of society's pushing they keep picking people jobs like teacher and nurse instead of logic jobs like mathematician.
Oliver Ross
The cope is that not every man gets the upside of being his birth sex. Men who are brilliant engineers because they are malebrained are a minority.
William Richardson
Well, that's true to some extent, but with some traits there is good reason to think it's not just socialization. Girls with a masculinizing disorder called CAH are far more likely to have male-typical interests, for instance. Knowing that this is true makes me think that it's likely that many other sex differences are at least partially biological too.
>implying Being a tranner is making me transition. I was dead inside beforehand. Real life forced feminization isn't as fun.
I think you're being unfair to them. It's obvious that socialization is influential when it comes to many things. For instance women heavily favor biology as a field of study nowadays but that wasn't the case some decades ago. Sex differences are real but you shouldn't exaggerate them. People are more likely to listen to you if you talk about things in a measured way, taking everything into account.
It's all massively polycausal though, right? Being slightly taller won't make you a better basketball player by itself but there is a relationship here. And if you play basketball getting shorter sucks.
Jacob Sanchez
Are they? Pushed into STEM? Because from what I see parents raise their daughters to be little princesses, "don't run, don't touch, don't poke" types, and by the time girls are exposed to STEM they already know it's a boys' thing. Programmes, ads, movie characters, and inspiring quotes have nothing on the influence exercised by family.
Jose Hill
This
Liam Hall
>Assertiveness, risk-taking and emotional resilience explain a lot by themselves.
men aren't emotionally resilient at all, at least not compared to women. both can be whiny insecure babies, and both can be tough as fuck, sometimes both in the same lifetime.
I wanted to quickly grab a picture and I saw that in my Any Forums folder and I remembered I was posting about men so it might be applicable. it's not really that applicable tho I guess.
Evan Hill
The only changes i can directly tie to hrt is reduced libido and strength/stamina. The rest of the changes are so subtle that I can't tell if they are a thing or not. I also cry more during movies but that could also be related to mental issues.
Bentley Ross
It obviously varies a lot but it sounds like there might be a trend.
Matthew Thompson
Men who have sex aren't whiny insecure babies.
Juan Morales
In my corner of the country, yes. Both genders are told that STEM is where you want to go if you don't want to be poor. It's still seen as a "boy's thing" but that's because it's hard and girls who go into it are put on a pedestal by feminists and men alike.
Christian Nelson
>STEM is where you want to go if you don’t want to be poor This is unfortunately sound advice I don’t deny this pedestal-placing happens; the question is if it is greater on average than the socialization effects of earliest childhood like mentions. I’m inclined to say it isn’t
Nolan Price
I wanted to push back on this, but you know, the whiny hysteria of Matt Walsh / Jordan Peterson / Adrian Vermuele / other such married reactionary figures probably is just a result of their wives never sleeping with them
Lucas Jenkins
Putting a new spin on sex differences!
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week
Wyatt Cruz
I'm thankful every day that I'm too mentally ill to have a male or female brain
