Reply #35: Why is this study called startling? [View All]

[aneerkoinos]

This has been known at least for decades. Well maybe only in relatively equal societies like Finland, where women have had equal or close to equal opportunities for a long time. Based on biology women have better language skills, so this should be no surprise.

Women have also better social skills and tend to be more responsible than men. Men have better spatial skills, so natural scienses still remain male dominated. Naturally individual differences surpass these generalisations, but for society, these relative differences do matter.

Yep, more feminine society is a good thing, because that means more social responsibility and less pissing contests that often lead in violence. Only downside I can see is a more pampering society, a Big Sister society, and my modest hope is that when women grab power, they will leave some room for us men to follow our natural instinct to do stupid things. We will be very unhappy if we can't do stupid irresponsible things, and if we are unhappy, women can't be very happy. Also sometimes the stupid thing we do can end up being actually quite smart things and good for the whole of the society.