Recently I read another article on here about the bias in ADHD diagnosis, and since it's largely due to the overlap between symptoms and normal male development, I started to wonder what other things carry overlap bias like this.

Nothing interesting really came up, I went through quite a bit, and then touched on the other side of a connection - anti-social personality disorder, and boarder line personality disorder. ASPD, commonly referred to as sociopathy or psychopathy, and often blown out of proportion (serial killers), is the basis for male stereotypes - unfeeling, confident, socially powerful, intelligent. BPD doesn't really have a common name, though it is portrayed in media - emotional, fragile, needy, weak.

What's more interesting, men are three times as likely to have ASPD, while women are three times as likely to have BPD; could it be that, despite everything else, gender stereotypes are somewhat based on biology, even the extreme ones? After all, gender rolls are.

Women call certain exes sociopaths, men, again, don't really have a common term, but that girl who moped around all the time, constantly needed attention, wanted to be there when you were busy just to be near you... but always ended up touching your face while your were typing... yeah, that.

Perhaps the damsel in distress is actually a perfectly equal character when it comes to the psychopath who put her there, or the sociopath who rescues her.

Perhaps everything is just a caricature of biological humanity! /s

Spoilers: I'm not sober, but all of that works quite well, and you know it.