Interesting observation in the American Interest:
There was a time when presidents of Harvard made statements about female intellectual capacity and nothing ever happened — but if a president of Harvard were found to be mistreating his actual wife by dumping her for an attractive younger woman he would be ridden out of town on a rail. Today it is more or less the opposite; you can dump the old bat for a young hottie and nobody will say boo, but if you hint that the female brain isn’t good at physics they will roast you alive. From the standpoint of morality something was gained and something lost.
I'm not so sure, the marital mistreatment is real, tangible evil, while the recognition of cognitive difference is true, just not popular.
We've substituted fake sensitivity for real wrong and lost something in the process.
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