• osarusan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Remember that the existing consensus was also created by scientists with political and social motivations who made plenty of assumptions about gender.

    A challenge to the status quo isn't automatically biased just because it challenges the status quo.

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      Except that the "existing consensus" as portrayed in the article is phony in the sense that no anthropologist has seriously believed or promulgated binary hunting and gathering roles for men and women since at least the 1960s. That may be a notion that exists in the popular imagination, but it doesn't exist in contemporary anthropology and hasn't for decades.