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The world isn't going to end if you do your laundry and your dishes. Or cook. It's not going to end if everyone shared the burden of the unpaid labor of social reproduction out equitably. But it would force a reevaluation of the market value of different human beings, which would be a terrifying...

If you're endorsing the notion that women should go on strike until men perform a fair share of overall labor, I must ponder whether you have really thought the likely consequences through, but I support it. So why bring them up if they aren't a difference you're using in order to explain why...

Incorrect. Women put more hours in than men do. It is simply due to the inadequacy of men that about 40% of these hours are unpaid efforts to keep the world functioning without it collapsing into a fetid mess. Now you're introducing the idea that women aren't aggressive, or can't control their...

Those are jobs that all rely on the ability to evaluate people and make decisions about people, ahead of technical knowledge. The apex of technical skill in the military is in warrant and petty officers. You are now saying that women just don't... put time into things as a response? A non sequitur.

You are the one arguing that men have technical minds and women have social minds. I am simply pointing out that if this is true, women should make up the overwhelming majority of managers, executives, senior bureaucrats, military officers above the rank of O-3, diplomats, and lawyers, as they...

I will separately note that if women are better with people skills that suggests they are best suited for management and executive positions, as those jobs are far more dependent on people skills and they can always have some advisor who has turned his socially incompetent mind to technical arcana.

You understand that a legal restriction is an artifact, yes? But leaving that aside, what I see here are assertions that science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing jobs are solely a matter of "playing with trucks," as it were. All I can say is that you clearly haven't actually worked in...

So, to cut away all the fluff, what this amounts to is that women are different in that they like girly stuff, which is defined as "not STEM", "certain fields". And also the legal exclusion of women from certain sports and military positions is directly a consequence of this inherent difference...

It certainly is a difference in kind. The expression of hair color indicates a different genome. The question is whether this difference in kind demands a difference in treatment, a difference in position, a difference in action. That is, outside of narrow contexts like getting your hair dyed...

The differences are very immediately obvious, unless the person has their head sufficiently covered.

Okay. Now apply this to, say, hair color. There are differences between blondes and brunettes, therefore we cannot say that all hair colors are equal. We must concede the possibility that one is naturally inferior to the others and so must submit to them. Or is this fundamentally an asinine...

If we are going to make biological metaphors, there are many species which are gregarious and yet segregate by sex, or which are solitary and segregate by sex. One wonders why, if humanity is such that the differences between men and women are so vast as to render it asinine to suggest they are...

So your contention is that women are a species (not in the biological sense) apart from men? One wonders why they often live in proximity to one another, then.

This doesn't really answer the question. Are men and women "different" and unequal, or are they "different" and equal?

Ten to four. I would suggest that they do not mean that an academic field which emerged around 80 years after W. S. Gilbert wrote those words was on his mind as he wrote them. As Asimov himself noted in either his final SF collection or one of his later essay collections, "psychohistory" had...

What's the point of such a distinction? I don't see what's postmodernist about using concepts that are so associated with the Modernists, such as Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft. Psychohistory as a discipline is more recent, to be sure, but psychological analysis of history certainly dates back...

If the worth of people is incommensurable, not comparable, then they cannot be unequal because an inequality cannot actually be defined. Thus, they would not be equal or unequal but existing in a state of uncertain equality. That is, if we define that equality is a mathematical term, so too is...

Why is equality mythical? Is this an axiomatic statement? Furthermore, even if there is some sort of Great Chain of Being which dictates who is lesser and who is greater, do we have the ability to access it such that we can be assured that equality is mythical in practice rather than merely...

When you say that "this probably extends to lesbianism as well", do you mean that you believe lesbianism is mythical, or that it's an inappropriate ideal?

Which would you say is your primary objection? To the notion of equality or to the notion that lesbianism is equal/democratic in orientation?