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Feminism is scientifically false: Men and women have distinctly different personalities on average


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2019 Dec 15, 9:40am   1,438 views  15 comments

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Feminism is the radical notion that women are men. This notion is not only false on the face of it, but directly contradicts the experience of every human being who has ever lived.

We will remain stuck in the new dark age of political correctness until we all learn to speak the truth about innate gender differences in personality in spite of the pressure from above to lie about it.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/taking-sex-differences-in-personality-seriously/

A large number of well done studies have painted a rather consistent picture of sex differences in personality that are strikingly consistent across cultures (see here, here, and here). ...

At the broad level, we have traits such as extraversion, neuroticism, and agreeableness. But when you look at the specific facets of each of these broad factors, you realize that there are some traits that males score higher on (on average), and some traits that females score higher on (on average), so the differences cancel each other out. This canceling out gives the appearance that sex differences in personality don't exist when in reality they very much do exist. ...

On average, males tend to be more dominant, assertive, risk-prone, thrill-seeking, tough-minded, emotionally stable, utilitarian, and open to abstract ideas. Males also tend to score higher on self-estimates of intelligence, even though sex differences in general intelligence measured as an ability are negligible [2]. Men also tend to form larger, competitive groups in which hierarchies tend to be stable and in which individual relationships tend to require little emotional investment. In terms of communication style, males tend to use more assertive speech and are more likely to interrupt people (both men and women) more often-- especially intrusive interruptions-- which can be interpreted as a form of dominant behavior.

Of course, there are many men who don't display high levels of all of these traits. But that fact doesn't contradict the broader pattern. ...

In contrast, females, on average, tend to be more sociable, sensitive, warm, compassionate, polite, anxious, self-doubting, and more open to aesthetics. On average, women are more interested in intimate, cooperative dyadic relationships that are more emotion-focused and characterized by unstable hierarchies and strong egalitarian norms. Where aggression does arise, it tends to be more indirect and less openly confrontational. Females also tend to display better communication skills, displaying higher verbal ability and the ability to decode other people's nonverbal behavior. ...

However, in recent years it's becoming increasingly clear that when you take a look at the overall gestalt of personality-- taking into account the correlation between the traits-- the differences between the sexes become all the more striking. ...

Critically, all four studies converge on the same basic finding: when looking at the overall gestalt of human personality, there is a truly striking difference between the typical male and female personality profiles.

Just how striking? Well, actually, really striking. In one recent study, Tim Kaiser, Marco Del Giudice, and Tom Booth analyzed personality data from 31,637 people across a number of English-speaking countries. ... In other words, their data suggests that the probability that a randomly picked individual will be correctly classified as male or female based on knowledge of their global personality profile is 85% (after correcting for the unreliability of the personality tests). ...

This basic pattern of findings was replicated in another recent large-scale survey of narrow personality traits conducted on nearly a million people across 50 countries. Using different personality tests, and averaging across all countries, Tim Kaiser found a D = 2.16, which is very similar to the effect size found in the other study on English-speaking countries. While there was cross-cultural variation in the effect, there was a general trend for more developed, individualistic countries with higher food availability, less pathogen prevalence, and higher gender equality to show the largest sex differences in global personality [6].

In particular, Scandinavian countries consistently showed larger-than-average sex differences in global personality, together with the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, and other Northern and Eastern European Countries. The countries with the smallest sex differences in global personality included several Southeast Asian countries. To be sure, there wasn't a perfect correlation between more developed, gender-egalitarian countries and sex differences (e.g., Russia displayed the largest sex difference with D = 2.48). But even Pakistan-- the country with the smallest sex differences in global personality in the world according to this study-- had a D = 1.49. This means that even when you look around the world for the country with the smallest sex difference in global personality, the classification accuracy of that country is still 77%! ...

In fact, some recent studies using the most sophisticated techniques have consistently found greater than 90% accuracy rates [ in deducing sex from personality alone ] looking at whole brain data (see here, here, and here). While this level of prediction is definitely not perfect-- and by no means do those findings justify individual stereotyping or discrimination-- that's really high accuracy as far science goes [7]. ...

"People might be more reasonable than you think", Marco Del Giudice, a leader in the science of sex differences, told me. "Why would you expect people to just make up differences between men and women that aren't there? One possibility is that they are not making it up. ...

Now, one might counter at this point: Scott, you really should stop talking openly and honestly about these findings and implications, because if the truth got out there, it could cause harm. But here's the thing: rarely do we consider the harm that could be caused by ignoring sex differences! One can think of many ways in which pretending something doesn't exist may actually cause greater harm psychologically than accepting the facts of the matter. ...

Nevertheless, sex differences are also part of the picture, and may be particularly detrimental to a relationship if all partners go into the marriage thinking that they "should not exist", instead of coming to a healthy acceptance of sex differences, even laughing about them and attempting to understand differences in interests and motivations that fall along sex-related lines. ...

That doesn't mean that we ignore sociocultural factors, which are clearly important. But sex differences in behavior are so pervasive in nearly every other species. It's just not plausible that somehow male and female psychology evolved to be identical despite the physiological differences and different reproductive roles across human evolutionary history.


One day we will all learn to accept the large and innate differences in male and female personalities. The truth is better than living the lie that the academia, the media, and angry feminists have forcibly imposed for decades.

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1   SunnyvaleCA   2019 Dec 15, 10:43am  

For those who haven't seen it (is that anyone in the world?), now is the time to enjoy the Jordan Peterson -vs- Cathy Newman interview that blasted Dr. Peterson's internet fame into orbit:
www.youtube.com/embed/aMcjxSThD54&t=346s
2   Shaman   2019 Dec 15, 11:25am  

Welcome to 10,000 years ago.
I mean, this is such obvious information that it takes a real pack of abject morons to dispute it.
3   KgK one   2019 Dec 15, 7:17pm  

Human history goes way back more than 5000 years, why women want equal rights now?

Why didn't they want to join wars in past ?
4   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2019 Dec 15, 7:53pm  

I think Feminism is what happens when we have really stupid people trying to solve nonexistent problems. Feminists only hurt women and men in the process. Real stupid fucks if you ask me.
5   just_passing_through   2019 Dec 15, 8:45pm  

Mr. Obvious et al.
6   NDrLoR   2019 Dec 15, 9:03pm  

Patrick says
In contrast, females, on average, tend to be more sociable, sensitive, warm, compassionate, polite, anxious, self-doubting, and more open to aesthetics
and have babies.
7   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Dec 15, 9:10pm  

Patrick says
Feminism is the radical usual notion that women are men.

"Men need to do more in favor of women. "
Here, fixed.
8   goofus   2019 Dec 16, 9:53am  

Most interesting (and counter-intuitive) to me is the paragraph which identifies countries with the most and least differentiated male/female personalities. Russia and Scandinavia have the greatest difference among the sexes, and Pakistan the least (!)

This falls in line with another study I've read that Scandinavian women are freer to choose traditionally feminine careers (like teaching and nursing), and do so, rather than learning traditionally masculine fields. Women in "patriarchal" countries, on the other hand, are more likely to study engineering or medicine in school.

Or, perhaps when women have the pro formas of femninity sorted through hijab clothing and strict separation of sexes, they're more likely to "let it all hang out" with their male relatives and female friends. Nuances of femininity are unnecessary when marriages are arranged and women are cloistered?
9   Bd6r   2019 Dec 16, 10:09am  

goofus says
Most interesting (and counter-intuitive) to me is the paragraph which identifies countries with the most and least differentiated male/female personalities. Russia and Scandinavia have the greatest difference among the sexes, and Pakistan the least (!)

My limited experience with Middle Eastern womyn show that the ones who have escaped religious indoctrination are much more likely to ask men out and to be pro-active and rather shamelessly pushy to get what they want. May be that is the reason why men there push Islam to pacify and subjugate their womyn...
10   Heraclitusstudent   2019 Dec 16, 11:59am  

goofus says
Or, perhaps when women have the pro formas of femninity sorted through hijab clothing and strict separation of sexes, they're more likely to "let it all hang out" with their male relatives and female friends. Nuances of femininity are unnecessary when marriages are arranged and women are cloistered?


Either that or women in poor countries are more likely to take on the yoke of hard work, whereas in other countries where they can do so they are more likely to seek to parlay their attraction into material resources.
11   NDrLoR   2019 Dec 16, 8:54pm  

Heraclitusstudent says
Either that or women in poor countries are more likely to take on the yoke of hard work, whereas in other countries where they can do so they are more likely to seek to parlay their attraction into material resources.
I was reading something one time along these lines where they had visited Russia and observed that women did all the dirty work, street cleaning, restroom duty, you name it. What they never saw in Russia was a woman beautifully and stylishly dressed and enjoying leisure activities.
12   Bd6r   2019 Dec 17, 8:10am  

NDrLoR says
women did all the dirty work, street cleaning, restroom duty, you name it.

If 50% of men are alcoholics, then women have to do nearly everything. A side product for shortage of men is feminism not being popular among women.
13   goofus   2019 Dec 17, 1:11pm  

NDrLoR's comment in a way refutes Heraclitusstudent's. Russia ranked top for m/f personality difference, and yet the women have historically worked like mules. Hard work isn't necessarily the explanation for Pakistan.
14   Patrick   2019 Dec 17, 7:56pm  

rd6B says
A side product for shortage of men is feminism not being popular among women.


Thanks, this is a good insight.
15   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Dec 22, 7:42pm  

"The first author (working with Jenessa Shapiro) hit upon a promising device to elucidate these issues. Reasoning that popular magazines both reflected and galvanized distinctive cultural views, Braver and Shapiro speculated that subscription rates to certain of these magazines across times and locales could provide an empirical window onto these trends. They thus obtained state-by-state, year-by-year subscription data for the following four magazines: Lady’s Home Journal (read almost entirely by women with fairly traditional values and interests); Playboy (glorifying male hedonism); Cosmopolitan (representing lifestyle advice for “fun, fearless females” seeking empowerment, self improvement, and sexual fulfillment); and Ms. (representing the feminist ideology closely associated with the Women’s Movement). Arraying these subscription rates in a multi-level model against the year-by-year, state-by-state (crude) divorce rates, Braver and Shapiro found (in results not previously published) that changes in divorce rates at the state level were well matched by the state’s trends in subscriptions to Ms. Magazine , and were opposite (though not significantly) to its trends in subscriptions to Lady’s Home Journal. Importantly, they found virtually no association between the state’s divorce rate and its subscriptions to Playboy or Cosmopolitan . Taken together, these data provocatively suggest that some, but not all, value changes are associated with changes in divorce rates. Changing levels of interest in the aspects of self fulfillment and self-empowerment captured in feminist ideology and its antithesis seemed important, whereas changes in the emphasis on either male specialized or female-specific self-fulfillment and hedonism were unrelated to divorce trends. Strengthening this interpretation, since around 1970, about 2 in 3 divorces have been sought by wives (Ahrons & Rodgers, 1987 ; Braver, Whitley, & Ng, 1993 ; Pettit & Bloom, 1984 ) , whereas previously, “most divorces were the man’s idea” (DeWitt, 1992 , p. 54). In addition, findings show that the more that an individual woman agrees with the precepts of the Woman’s Movement, the more likely she is to divorce (Finlay, Starnes, & Alvarez, 1985)."

Braver, Sanford L., and Michael E. Lamb. "Marital Dissolution." Handbook of Marriage and the Family (2013): 487-516.

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