Someone in my uni Discord legit argued blank slateism

Auto translation: "like all the serious research in the target shows that children are equally malleable regardless of gender, that's why gender is a social construct, 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, if you have kids and you let them play with whatever they want and you don't show them commercials on TV, they'll play with both kind of equally"

And 6 people agreed and nobody challenged him

@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 @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