A strong bias toward the father pushes a developing brain along the autistic spectrum, toward a fascination with objects, patterns, mechanical systems, at the expense of social development. A bias toward the mother moves the growing brain along what the researchers call the psychoticbipolar disorder and depression. spectrum, toward hypersensitivity to mood, their own and others’. This, according to the theory, increases a child’s risk of developing schizophrenia later on, as well as mood problems like

Basically an extreme “male” is autistic, an extreme “female” is psychotic. And the vast majority of us are both male and female. And there are, of course, women who are autistic and men who are psychotic. Thus, I don’t think that this article or this theory contemplates itself as such, but this could be a model for contemplating “male” and “female” as opposites, as polls, as ideas, and most important as separate from living, breathing men and women, who are not manifestations of “male” and “female,” but rather a combination of male and female – which are descriptive words, and not identities.

Thus, the strategic essentialism of separating male and female (sex- biologic) from man and woman (gender – culturally constructed), may not actually be the best way to move towards gender justice. Rather, if male and female, becomes elements versus biological realities, then perhaps the notion of some static biological reality (which stands in the way of embracing the gender model), can be replaced by the Judith Butler’s (my fav feminist) theory that there is no absolute reason for categorizing the world into two sexes or into any sexes, it is a cultural call.

First, being thin is not the moral equivalents of giving charity. “Thinness” actually has no moral value at all.

Second, it seems to me that if modesty was actually about not standing out,  it would be alright to go to the gym in gym clothing, but from reading her blog it appears that modesty is about silence after all…

“I go to a gym that does group personal training. 4-5 people share a trainer and we do lots of different exercises using free weights, rowing machines, rope climbing, running, etc. Recently, I started wearing a skirt to the gym. I wear a pair of close fitting pants and then put this loose cotton skirt on top of them… But, even so, I doubt that what I am doing is really acceptable. Although my trainer is a female, men are sometimes in my group and they are frequently often in the gym. The people who go are mostly older than I am, married and with an established career, and I have never felt that anyone was there being distracted by un-tznius thoughts. However, how do I know?”