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Why are men and women different? IEET readers can’t decide

Posted: Nov 14, 2009

It’s a big question: Are the apparent mental and emotional differences between men and women mainly from biology? Or are they primarily from societal conditioning?

Almost half (46%) of respondents to our recently concluded poll answered “Both” while the other half split evenly between “Mostly from society” (24%) and “Mostly from biology” (24%) with the remaining 6% answering “I’m not sure.”

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Lord Zeon • • Nov 14, 2009

Now I may be uninformed about something here, but it seems very disappointing to me that so many educated people here think that the mental and emotional differences between men and women stem from mostly biological origins. I admit that I think that some difference stems from biology, but it's quite disheartening that so many intellectuals have not examined society closely enough to realize that society forces both genders into very rigid definitions.

veronica • • Nov 15, 2009

Mental and emotional? What if you think the former is mostly societal and the latter is mostly biological?

zyxo • • Nov 22, 2009

Biological or societal ? Is our society not a consequence of our biology? => Sociobiology ! See "societies" of ants, termites, bees, wolves, baboons, Volvox, etc. So, in the end it really is all biology !

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