@matrix ....but of course, transsexuals are 100% valid, because your inborn female *nature* not only overrides a lifetime of being raised and treated as male, it overrides you having a male body

@matrix

Blank slate theory is the foundation of progressivism and egalitarianism. Which is the current cultural zeitgeist of the Western world.

Its incredibly stupid and disproved by easily observable reality, never mind all the science (before academia was corrupted) behind genetics and sexual dimorphism.

However you need to believe in it to be logically consistent with any egalitarian/ progressive principles and ideals

@Publius @matrix

I like recommending Stephen Pinker's book on this topic. He's still apologizing for it decades later.

@matrix Child play often is just imitating their parents. So if the father is a living soyjack of course his son is going to put dresses on dolls in his free time.

@matrix >girls prefer dolls and boys prefer cars not because it's in their genetics, but because that's the way it's pushed on them
That is objectively true though

@miria

@matrix Except it actually is. Blank slate theory is retarded, but thinking male children are genetically drawn to cars and female children to dolls is somehow even more retarded.

@miria They aren't literally drawn to cars and dolls. Girls are more drawn to humans and boys to mechanical things that move.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163638300000321

@matrix @miria this is totally racist…

@miria @matrix It literally is. Boys from birth are more interested in mechanical objects and girls are more interested in people, and this correlates with how much prenatal testosterone they were exposed to.

You even have girls playing with dolls (because they instinctively want to be mothers) as an almost cultural universal historically, while boys are more likely to play with something else like beating eachother up with sticks

There is no evolutionary state where a boy and a girl having an interest in the same thing makes equal sense, so there is no possible state for any kind of blank slate. Even with the shitty "measurements" psychology everything is still largely genetic

@applejack @matrix Not sure why you're showing me an image about how blank slate theory is wrong. I already said that.

@miria @matrix Either blank slates exist or all behaviour is on some level genetic. Why boys like cars and soldiers but girls like dolls and playing house has a pretty obvious reason for it

@applejack @matrix You have yet to show that boys liking cars and soldiers and girls liking dolls and playing house is genetic.

@miria @matrix First, me and matrix talked about how it's measured from birth and correlates with prenatal testosterone, but, no, I don't need to prove anything. I have a very well tested theory that when applies here predicts everything perfectly without any extra assumptions needed, but you want to say that's not true, so you need to explain how that is and why you should assume it. This is like a god-of-the-gaps type meme

@applejack @matrix >I don't need to prove anything
Then why did you join the conversation and tell me otherwise?

@miria @matrix Because you're obviously being retarded and epistemological niggery won't save you

@applejack @matrix Uh... OK? Anyways, since you're not interested in proving anything, I'll stick to what I said.

@applejack @miria @matrix
>There is no evolutionary state where a boy and a girl having an interest in the same thing makes equal sense
Not that I'm disagreeing, but...

@Ricotta @matrix @miria Girls do like it to a much higher degree. I'm an exception, but the reasons are slightly different

@applejack @matrix @miria
>Girls do like it to a much higher degree

I saw the movie in theaters and it was all dudes in there.

@Ricotta @matrix @miria Then men like it to a higher degree, it's a difference either way.

LGs like it because it's a good show with cute LG horses they relate to because they're LGs, and men like it because it's a good show with cute LG horses they relate to wanting to bang because they're LGs

@matrix "Children are equally malleable regardless of gender." Which means in both cases they're not really malleable. Trust me, it would be a lot more fun for me if my niece wanted to play sports instead of house and princess.

@matrix to be fair cars do not exist in nature so therefore there is nothing natural about boys playing with car toys, that is 100% social conditioning