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So here’s the truth as far as I see it:

Yes. Women and men are differently capable.

However, there are many ways in which we traditionally believed them to be differently capable that were actually that way due to discrimination and injustice.

So, people will be rightly annoyed when someone tries to downplay the effects of systemic injustice.

When we have fixed our systems to be more just and inclusive, only then can we begin to talk about inherent difference.

Until then, it is not urgent.

Justice first.




> When we have fixed our systems to be more just and inclusive, only then [...]

This is not something that ever finishes.

I think we have to allow both to happen side by side, constantly struggling to balance them as best we can.




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