○ Spend more time on the many other types of biases besides stereotypes.
Stereotypes are much more accurate and responsive to new information than the
training suggests (I’m not advocating for using stereotypes, I just pointing out the
factual inaccuracy of what’s said in the training).
His memo.
Are you under the impression that that's a quotation of Damore saying "Why not woah is me as a white male conservative? When will Google coddle people like me?"?
It likely isn't, even if it's the thrust of much of what he was saying, that he is a victim of ideological persecution.
Trausti, why don't you look through the animal kingdom some time? You'll be VERY surprised.
Like among birds, whenever one sex is the more flashy-looking, it's almost always the male sex and not the female sex. A big violation of human stereotypes.
The "flashy male" element is somewhat less common among mammals than among birds. ...
But it does exist in some species, like male lions having manes and male deer having antlers.
On this subject, there is remarkably little variation in mammalian hair color when compared to birds' feathers. There is plenty of variation in brightness and saturation, but remarkably little in hue: orange to yellow. Bird feathers can have the full range of hues, however, sometimes different hues on the same bird or even the same feather.
Hang on a sec. Are you telling us that among birds, whenever one sex is the more flashy-looking, it's almost always the one with a double dose of the same sex chromosome, rather than the one who has one of each type and whose gamete therefore determines the sex of the offspring?
It actually has a lot more to do with how much competition (and how aggressive the competition) there is for mating. Given that in many species males are significantly more aggressive toward each other, there ends up being more reproductive competition among males. In humans, given our social developments, the competitive angles aren't analogous. There's still competition - men still peacock... but women still try to be attractive to a "high quality" mate. The meaning of "quality", however, is influenced by social pressures, so it changes over time.
How the sexes behave depends on the species' sociality and also on the sexes' reproductive investments.
Among solitary species, females can grow larger than males, because they have bigger gametes, gametes that they try to make well-supplied. Mantises and spiders are arthropods that prey on other arthropods, and since female ones are often larger than male ones, that makes female ones dangerous to their mates.
Charles Darwin got it right about sexual selection, but for a long time, his successors found it much easier to appreciate male competitiveness than female choosiness. The plain and choosy sex is the sex with the greater investment, and the flashy and competitive sex is the sex with the lesser investment. This rule holds true when it's the male that invests more than the female, even if that is rare. Like female bush crickets competing with each other for males because of the males' sperm capsules - the females eat them.
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Phalarope birds - the males sit on the eggs while the females compete for them.
A consequence of male competition is males becoming larger than females and looking flashier than females. In phalarope birds, it's the females that are larger and more flashy-looking, as one would expect from resource investment.
Looking at our species, some male features fit in well with male-male competition, such as being larger and having bigger chests and lower voices. But emphasis on female appearance more than male appearance -- that is just plain weird. That's not to say that many men have not been concerned with their appearance -- many men have been. But women often do more of that.
Something that seems universal in our species is that the two sexes like to sort themselves out into two social castes.
We "like" to? I'm not all that convinced that this caste-sorting is something that all of us are enamored of. I tend to think that one sex is a bit more enamored of that sort of caste-sorting than the other.
That sort of thing depends on what's involved in the social castes.