Heat wave? Also other things....

[jhetley]

We may have reached -- nay, surpassed -- the freezing mark today. For the first time in a week or so. We'll see if that ruins the snow for my ski outing tomorrow.

Off on a tangent, I've heard various riots about male/female brain differences lately, that dude at Harvard and elsewhere. The sound and fury tend to deafen folks to the likelihood that there actually _are_ functional differences between male and female brains, one example being the multiply-more-common incidence of autism in male children.

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

It's the same problem as mentioning functional differences that appear to be race-based. As soon as you admit the possibility, the loons come out of the woodwork to say that this "proves" one group or another is inferior. The only way to keep them cut off at the knees is not to bring it up at all. It's a choice of evils, IMO.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

And yet, as soon as you deny the functional differences between male and female, you deny that medicines work differently on men and women....