Al Roker interviews Leonard Sax, "Why Gender Matters"

A 5 minutes interview about Sax's book Why Gender Matters.

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[ElWongus]

This is actually a good book. My teacher for Teacher Cadets assigned us this book for a book report. It's really interesting.

[grumpyjester]

We need to face the facts: there's no point denying biological roots for gender differences just because we prefer them not to be there.

This should not have to affect an individual though: there are plenty of girls who like cars and boys who like dolls, and that's great. But it *does* stop us from doing crazy stuff like they did in Norway (the 40% female executive quotum).

[LyssaJamie93]

Sure the book this guy wrote is decent, but he does not come across as intelligent. A lot of the information he states is affected by outside influences; by society and parenting styles.

[domoyu3]

why dosent he consider that how we act is also affected by society?

[Meresortsitar]

I won't trust any of the gender differences mentioned in kids' games to be 'real' before they haven't made a large-scale experiment where boys and girls are raised in a society where they have never been treated differently because of their gender (see also /watch?v=MMldVZOxW64) and there are strictly no gender roles for grown-ups. If they find differences then - I'll agree.

Other than that we can never really know which are true differences and which manufactured by society.

[petitemasochist]

Quite a few of the boys I grew up with loved to play with my Bratz dolls and I liked cars and legos as well as baby dolls so what gives?

[PimpMyParadigm]

my sister came out of the womb with high heels and a corset

"at least ive got an excuse now"

they say that girls listen 7x boys

"at least ive got an excuse now"

my sister just sits there and listens, follows orders

"at least ive got an excuse now"

[JustThink00]

@mywolf1

not trying to tear you down, but personally I neveer had the slightest interest in dolls. What in the world do you do with them anyway? but I still ended up a very nurturing sort of person, more so than a lot of females I know.

[JustThink00]

unnecessary? i'll tell you what's unnecessary, mentioning a person's gender every time you refer to them. As if it's always relevant! as if gender is not the key defining trait of every person on the planet and so important that we must always be thinking about it, even though it is neither chosen, earned, or meaningful in any deep way.

There are physical differences to be sure, but any rule you come up with about mental differences will have exceptions, because we choose who we are.

[nta214]

@crangdaniel Probably... I stay away from pill pushers best I can.

[crangdaniel]

The whole point with science explaining our differences was never intended to make people feel bad about the differences. It is important to know our differences if we want to fix something when its broken. For instance if you get a decease and we don´t know that girls and boys are different we are more likely to treat it wrong and make it worse. The hysteria on making genders same may have fatal consequences on you.

[crangdaniel]

@nta214

Would you consider your doctor wacky too?