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#555 - Dr Sarah Hill - The Psychological Impact Of Hormonal Birth Control

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Are Sex Differences a Product of the Human Nervous System?

There's a tendency sometimes for people to believe that the idea that sex differences are the result of, you know, the patriarchy and culture. Well, if it was the case that the only sex differences that we see are exclusively culturally imprinted, that would make being a man or being a woman basically a fashion choice. That would mean that there's no accrued wisdom from the unbroken chain of survivors that make up the fact that you're here right now. You don't get any of that. And it also makes women specifically kind of like puppets of culture, like just these gray bits of sludge that usually the patriarchy can come a calm and just shape into whatever form it is that

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