Monday, October 08, 2018

Men do take more risks

The Atlantic mag reports:
Why Men Sexually Harass Women

Men vastly outnumber women among sexual harassers. The reason has more to do with culture than with intrinsic maleness.

OLGA KHAZAN

SCIENCE

… I can’t help but feel like the difference between teen me and how teen Kavanaugh allegedly behaved, and indeed between me and the other accused #MeToo perpetrators, comes down to how our different genders are conditioned to approach anything of a sexual nature.

… For one, women seem just as keen to take certain kinds of risks, like disagreeing with their friends on an issue or attempting to sell a screenplay. It’s just that when surveys measure risk taking in terms of things like unprotected sex and motorcycles, women tend to demur, since those types of activities are either more dangerous for women (the unprotected sex) or less familiar to them (riding motorcycles).

In fact, when researchers measured risk using more stereotypically feminine risky behavior, such as “cooking an impressive but difficult meal for a dinner party,” women turned out to be just as, if not more, likely to take risks as men. “Maybe there isn’t anything so special about male risk taking, after all,” wrote the University of Melbourne professor Cordelia Fine in Nautilus.

Several prominent psychologists believe there are actually few psychological differences between men and women.
If this were true, then we might expect to find societies where women are the aggressors, and women go around sexually assaulting men. But we don't.

This article is an example of blank slate disease, and leftists who refuse to accept human nature.

Simple evolutionary thinking should convince you that men will take more risks. If a man takes great risks to inseminate women, then he will have more grandchildren. Women have no such payoff for risk-taking.

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