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Today I tried to explain to a co-worker that we don’t actually know the biological differences between men and women because we can’t separate what is biological from what is the product of culture and upbringing. It was like talking to a wall. In her mind men and women are different, so therefore boys and girls are treated differently. I couldn’t get her to flip that and see that if boys and girls are treated differently, then men and women will be different. It was frustrating. I run into this kind of thing a lot, where people take something as a given that shouldn’t be, and I have yet to find more than a few people who are willing to put aside that given to consider new evidence.