Top Conservative Author Endorses ‘Benevolent Sexism’

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8. Seems like he is trying to contrive authority behind the social expectations that he has developed..

If he has a certain preference in women, and the attributes that he perceives as "feminine" parallel the social norm, that doesn't mean he has any ground for expecting anyone else to fulfill that norm.

What makes up the concepts "feminine" and "masculine" is inductively learned, based on instances of observing others. Some of those observed behaviors may actually be derived from the gender, but others may be based on society/culture and the environment.

For example, just because he observes many women being as mentally submissive as possible, that doesn't mean it defines the gender, or that any particular woman should develop herself around that norm. Same goes for men who think they need to be aggressive to be men. That observation doesn't mean that complete submissiveness is pertaining to the gender("feminine&quot , and not a cultural exaggeration. That exaggeration certainly may have roots in a general physiological tendency towards being more submissive than men. But the degree observed in women, compared to the degree observed in men, can easily be the result of tendencies snowballing in both directions, through the culture over time. The observations we make can't control for cultural influences. The inability to control for cultural influences and environment is also a large crack in his Bell Curve.