You didn’t, but your argument is identical to those of people who do. Is that the sort of ideological company you’re comfortable keeping?

“men and women have different brains”

Really? So, in order to determine that, there must be an abundance of peer-reviewed studies to corroborate that?

And the studies should probably use neonatal infants as the control group, since the brain is a plastic organ that adapts to its environment in amazing ways, and that adaptation results in specialization of the brain.

For example: the brain of London cabbies changes after they memorize the Knowledge. Unless you mean to tell me that London cabbies are born with latent maps of Old London’s side streets in their brain just waiting to be activated when they select a comparison, like they’re some sort of navigational Ackerman–

But of course you wouldn’t say any such thing because that claim’s ridiculous. While there’s a lot we don’t know about cognition, neurologists DO know that the topography of the brain can be affected by socialization.

And since socialization starts the second the nurse puts a blue or pink hospital band on your baby wrist, only truly “new” newborns would provide an unbiased control.

And as far as neuroscience has discovered, there isn’t much difference in their brains, suggesting that the brain development found in adults is as much a result of nurture as it is nature.

“They have different behaviours, different ways of processing negative emotions, different instincts, different strengths and weaknesses. Those things aren’t socially constructed”

You’re kidding, right?

Behaviours are /learned/. You are TAUGHT what is appropriate. Toddlers will say anything to anyone at any time; most adults won’t.

Socially-appropriate ways of processing negative emotions are the definition of social constructs: feminine in Miami is different than feminine in Mumbi, even in the way women show pain, fear, anger, envy and jealousy. Ever wonder why that is?

Different instincts? Which would those be, hm? All humans fear pain, avoid hunger and slake thirst. We sleep, we cry when we are sad or hurt or scared, and we all wonder existential questions and we all seek a group. What other instincts are there?

Different strengths and weaknesses? I don’t even understand this one. You know mammoths are extinct, right?

“they are influenced by their hormones and brain wiring. science”

Alright then–you like science so much, let’s see you put your money where your mouth is. Science is objective observation of material reality, right?

So [citation needed].

Hormones and //brain wiring//?!

Prove it. Sources or shut up.