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I don't understand this statement at all. Are you saying that he's ignoring the fact that women have different abilities to defend themselves from attackers?



I'm saying that it gives a sense of vertigo when an otherwise rational man propounds such laughably conventional PC views as if they were bold insights.

The assumption of biological egalitarianism underpins the idea that all inequalities of outcome are due to the malice of straight white middle-class males.

Yet it is not straight, white, middle-class males who are actually committing most of the rapes in America.


Sorry, I think I was unclear in my question.

"cannot countenance the possibility that there is not a completely uniform distribution of ability across all conceivable human subgroups."

What ability are you talking about? (This is not disagreement btw, this is truly for clarification).

"The assumption of biological egalitarianism underpins the idea that all inequalities of outcome are due to the malice of straight white middle-class males.

Yet it is not straight, white, middle-class males who are actually committing most of the rapes in America."

Insofar as this particular argument goes, it doesn't matter if the males are white or middle-class. It is, however, straight men who commit most of the rapes as well as other sexual abuses and sexual harassment in America.




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