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Originally Posted by knox
someone's intelligence is not determined by gender.
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I think one of the things I want to say is that in real terms it is. I mean, in actual reality terms it isn't, but in the real of the day-to-day, people are perceived as more stupid on the basis of their gender presentation. I probably do this too, but I've become incredibly aware that my partner can say exactly the same statement as me, and I get listened to and applauded, while people ignore her. My sister was telling me of an important meeting where a male 'had an idea' that she'd said, verbatim, earlier in the discussion, and he was given the plaudits for it. This is kind of the precedent of this thread, all of these discrete privileges which interpose a discriminative 'reality' upon the biological reality (which is hopelessly obscure)