lsd wrote: ↑25 May 2023 22:00
only stupid men can think that women are under-gifted...
and only under-gifted women that they are dominated by these men...
I don’t think anyone who has met or corresponded with Larry Niven would think he thinks women are under-gifted!
And neither his Man-Kzin Wars stories, nor the Star Trek episodes in which the Kzin appear, have in them any evidence for thinking he’s stupid or masculinist!
In the invertebrate phyla, (and also the cold-blooded and/or aquatic or marine classes of vertebrates), there are many examples of species with such extreme sexual dimorphism, a person first encountering them would not expect the males and females (or males and hermaphrodites, or females and hermaphrodites) to be members of the same species.
In fact, in some of them, the male is so much smaller it can live inside the body of the female, and it’s also a radically different shape. In others, the females are so much smaller they can live inside the male, and, again, are a radically different shape.
Prettydragoon has just built a world in which the sentient species has a drastic sexual dimorphism of intelligence.
They aren’t human, nor are they intended to be; they’re really not intended to be much like humans in respect to sex and reproduction! (As I understand it! @Prettydragoon, please correct me if I’m wrong!)
And, they’re fictional. Can you suspend disbelief while reading of them?
Humans appear to have some subtle sexual dimorphisms of brains and of mental processes. I think this is still being debated. I also think that men and women both have a spectrum of behavior; and while the central tendency of each sex is different from that of the other sex —(maybe to a significant degree, or maybe not)— their spectrums overlap quite a bit.
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But I don’t see any reason the intelligent species native to some other planet, couldn’t have such sexual dimorphism.
Indeed, the sexes of Earth’s birds (such as peafowl or cardinals) typically are colored very differently. So there’s no reason to just
expect that, if we meet another intelligent species, they won’t be radically sexually dimorphic.
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Most males will undergo great risks for a chance to mate with a female.
Most females are much more safety-minded when seeking a mate.
So there’s a fairly significant sexual dimorphism of behaviors, in humans.