Empathize with this, buddy.
Raise your hand if you're really, really, really tired of
books on how men are biologically better at math and systems, and women are hard-wired to be all about the empathy.
Baron-Cohen's research shows that the citizens of the world can be divided into two groups: those who possess a female or "type E" (for empathizing) brain and those who possess a male or "type S" (for systemizing) brain.
Know what? My brain is type "F". For Fuck Off. Better yet, "F" for Find me a culture in which little girls are not stomped down for aggressive play and interest in things mathematical and systematic, and little boys are not stomped down for showing empathy, and then tell me about
their brains.
Posted by Liz at August 24, 2003 11:47 PM