Showing posts with label Gender Difference Denial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gender Difference Denial. Show all posts

Monday, June 07, 2010

I am P. Z. Myers, Hear Me Roar

Call it GDD: Gender Difference Denial. It's everywhere, but particularly concentrated among those who fashion themselves as "scientific." P. Z. Myers, noted atheist biology professor, expresses his objection to the idea that men make better scientists than women, but he does it by invoking GDD:
This naive imposition of unscientific modes of thought on women
specifically leads to the state we have now. Assume a fundamental difference in
attitude: women feel, while men think.

To infer any difference in attitude between men and women is the closest thing to a sin in the system of secularist dogma. Marketers, of course, know different, which is why they have to pitch things differently to attract that much valued young male viewer--as opposed to the female audience, which apparently requires a different kind of programming.

This example occurs to me primarily because, as I sit here composing this, the female viewers in the room with me, in control of the remote, are watching Lifetime Television. Why are females attracted to Lifetime, while at least two of the males in the room would much rather be watching, say, mixed martial arts on Spike?

Could it be that women are attracted to the emotionalism so prevalant on Lifetime?

We could speculate on this, but we must not allow ourselves to think that it is because men and women are actually different. So if you ever wonder why you have to battle so often with someone of the opposite sex over the remote, go ahead and spin your theories--just don't resort to the obvious one.