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A decade after Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate, why is human nature still taboo?

mayonesa

August 21, 2012

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100177038/a-decade-after-steven-pinkers-the-blank-slate-why-is-human-nature-still-taboo/

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Title	A decade after Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate, why is human nature still taboo?
Author	mayonesa
Upvotes	17
Comments	8
Date	August 21, 2012 2:11 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/ykwm3/a_decade_after_steven_pinkers_the_blank_slate_why/
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[–]mayonesa[S] 5 points6 points7 points 13 years ago (7 children) | Copy Link

Immediate relevance:

As Pinker wrote, there are two types of feminism: “Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. Gender feminism is an empirical doctrine committed to three claims about human nature. The first is that the differences between men and women have nothing to do with biology but are socially constructed in their entirety. The second is that humans possess a single social motive – power – and that social life can be understood only in terms of how it is exercised. The third is that human interactions arise not from the motives of people dealing with each other as individuals but from the motives of groups dealing with other groups – in this case, the male gender dominating the female gender.

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