This must be that famous male proclivity for solving problems rather than talking about them that I've heard so much about! My indeed sexually dimorphic lady brain has been wowed.
As you can plainly see in my other post, I was careful to say that I was not calling him a misogynist, and further, that, having heard the cultural framing he used myself from other sources, I did not know if he even endorsed it rather than simply invoked it.
But rather than respond to the critically important, to women and girls especially, substance of my commentary, relating to the psychological impact of patriarchal framing, he instead has decided a victim role is most appealing, decrying how unfair it is that he's now been labeled as literal evil over OLD SCIENCE of all things…well known to be the least misogynistic topic imaginable. He was just using logic and reason guys. Don't hate him for his nuance!
I'm hoping his post is as tongue-in-cheek as this one, but at the same time, why is it that we can't discuss how unnecessarily misogynist patriarchal framing, whether intentional or reflected, affects women and girls? Why is that topic off-limits?
i'll fix it for him. "i felt put upon, but really i'm not a victim. it's scary to listen to women to learn something new."
Both male and female brains are malleable. We are not cast in stone by our biology. Nurture plays a part too. We can help develop more rounded children by encouraging kids to play with toys 'designed' for both sexes. This can strengthen neural pathways that are more common in the opposite sex. Girls CAN develop better spatial awareness, and boys CAN develop better empathy.
A driving instructor asked a female friend if she had a brother and had played with his toy cars. He guessed this because she was a natural at parking. I'm the same. I'm good at parking, map reading etc as I developed better spatial awareness via my brothers' toys. I didn't even realise it at the time.
Naudé does a disservice to both men and women by implying that we are limited by our biology. His original would be better phrased as: "Males who have not been given the chance to learn empathy or language, want to solve problems rather than talk about them".
It appears that Naudé may not have been encouraged to pay with girls' toys.