
The Second Sexism | David Benatar
Brain in a Vat
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Is There Sexism Against Women?
If we rolled back in time to a hundred years ago, most people at universities would have been men. We now find that more women are graduating from universities than men. But the claim wiuld be that men have some kind of historic advantage and on that basis, we should take their plight less seriously. Well, they may have advantages historically in certain realms, but not in others. i think there's a perfectly good explanation for why we would expect genderroles to play out to the advantage and disadvantage of each of the sexes under different circumstances'
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