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The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society QUOTES

1 " Men’s behavior is, to some extent, the result of female sexual preferences. If women didn’t want to mate with masculine men, these traits would have been removed from the gene pool long ago. “Toxic masculinity” is the result of women’s sexual preferences over thousands of generations. Contemporary feminists are punishing an entire generation of men for the mating preferences of their female ancestors. "

― , The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

2 " It isn’t sexist to acknowledge sex differences. What’s sexist is assuming that women must be the same as men in order to be treated as equals. "

― , The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

3 " It’s truly a shame that, as a scientific discipline, evolutionary psychology isn’t mandatory reading as part of university curriculum. It would undoubtedly help men and women navigate not just dating and sex, but understanding their own attitudes and behavior, but understanding their own attitudes and behavior, to have more fulfilling sex, and win the ultimate prize of falling in love. "

― , The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

4 " Activist organizations have managed to infect much of the information that is available relating to both gender and biological sex. Any research studies that are not in agreement with this agenda are ignored as though they never existed. Whether it’s health websites, research publications, or media articles, it really is a jungle out there. If what you are looking for is basic, foundational information, anything older than ten years old is probably safe. Anything published in the last few years is questionable. "

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5 " A big part of the problem seemed to be that many of Damore’s critics didn’t understand the concept of statistical averages. Even "

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6 " Those of us who do not fit into typical ideas of "female" and "male" do not need to be classified as an entirely different sex or gender simply because we are atypical. "

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7 " It's not unusual for a young woman to feel this way—discomfort at having a female body and feeling as though she is not like other girls. I certainly felt that way growing up. But instead of reassuring young women that this is completely okay and there is is no "correct" way to be a woman, society is now convincing girls who are different that they are really men or another gender. "

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8 " Therein lies the double standard: If a child is gender-nonconforming, this is interpreted as biological and something that shouldn’t be dissuaded or tampered with. But if a child is gender-conforming, this is seen as the result of social influence and something that parents should actively try to change. I often see boys who are gender-atypical, allowed by their parents to express themselves in a hyperfeminine and in some cases, inappropriately sexualized way, pouting with duck lips in photos and posing seductively. In the case of child drag queens, for example, little boys—some as young as age eight—perfect their makeup and hair and put on skimpy outfits to gyrate to, in many cases, explicitly sexual songs onstage. As someone who spent more nights than I can count in drag clubs with my friends when I was younger, I fully support young kids, especially feminine boys, expressing themselves. But I find the hypocrisy mind-numbing—would the adults cheering on drag kids allow their daughters to pose in the same way? "

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9 " The word “transgender” encompasses the Latin prefix trans-, which means “on the other side of.” (The word “cisgender” is sometimes used to refer to people who are not transgender and who identify as their birth sex. It similarly uses a Latin prefix, cis-, which translates to “on this side of,” or roughly, one’s gender identity and birth sex are on the same side.) "

― , The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society