All posts tagged "Amanda Schaffer"

I wish Slate would let me embed their frigging videos, because I'd love to embed the one they have up summarizing a series up by Amanda Schaffer examining all the non-science masquerading as science that claims to find vast differences between men and women's brains, differences that always point to women being a biologically inferior sex---stupid, talks too much, illogical, only good for being fucked and diapering babies. Sadly, there are now women writing books in this vein, though of course they dress up the differences in language that pretends that they're not claiming that women are inferior and should be relegated to second class status. If you slap a woman's name on a book that claims women are inferior, it gives it more credibility, which it shouldn't, because believers should automatically assume that the female author is as stupid as the rest of her gender supposedly is. But you know, you can't claim it's sexist if a woman said it.