Reddit mentions of The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

This is a hilariously common delusion among feminists. The idea that women are on average physically weaker then men because of "patriarchy". And that if only we lived in a perfectly feminist utopic (read: sexless) society, all sexual dimorphic traits would vanish and women would be competing in the exact same powerlifting classes as men. No...seriously, that's what they actually think.

Here's a feminist anthropology PhD on here regurgitating this hilarious nonsense. And an actual book (written by a psychiatrist feminist) basically expressing the view that the only reason men "seem" more physically powerful than women is because teh menz are keeping them weak.

I guess once you decide to take a trip down the deranged rabbit hole of academic feminism, pretty soon no measure absurd research cherry-picking and perversion of reality in the form of wildly deluded "feminist theory" is out of bounds.

> In "The Frailty Myth," Colette Dowling presents a compelling and well-researched analysis of why and how American girls are socialized to be "weak." Dowling examines the myths about the "weaker sex," tracing this myth as a source of the oppression of women handed down to us from Victorian times.

> She convincingly explains why men fear strong women: In part, she says, it's because strength is perhaps the only area in which our culture does not say that men and women are equal. Thus, as male-only professions and traits are rapidly disappearing from public discourse, strength is masculinity's last hope.

Source: The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls by Colette Dowling.

Men's sports are especially the target of feminist venom because they remind them of the one place where they can't hope to achieve equality(though some have delusions).

Also, Title IX and how it was passed.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/06/how-title-ix-sneakily-revolutionized-womens-sports/258708/

You may have read, or be interested in reading The Frailty Myth. It talks about that very subject, about how it's got everything to do with early conditioning. It's a good read. Very thought-provoking.

To be frank I'm not that well acquainted with Marx, but having traveled around South-East Asia and being engaged to someone born in China, I know a bit about his ideological descendants in Asia. The Khmer Rouge (http://hmd.org.uk/genocides/khmer-rouge-ideology), Mao (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards_(China)) and Vietnam all attempted to create an ideal society by purging undesirable elements: capitalists, religious leaders, nobility, intellectuals landowners, etc. This was done by killing them, imprisonment, or exiling them to the countryside. The intent was to rebuild a society without oppression or exploitation. They explicitly believed that concepts like exploitation were passed down families and via media, which is why they tended to break up problematic families and ban Western media.

I'm not sure if Pinker discusses how racism and sexism are ahistorical (don't have the book with me now), but I can cite numerous writers and activists who do.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/03/everyday-cissexism/

"we’re all socialized to be cissexist", despite the gender binary being the norm for not only humans but mammals in general.

http://theracecardproject.com/no-one-is-born-being-racist/

Claims nobody is born racist, despite evidence suggesting that people inherently distinguish others by race (http://time.com/67092/baby-racists-survival-strategy/)

https://prezi.com/j7e0d9z9doaw/challenging-colonialism-cultural-imperialism-and-possession/

A presentation I saw, where the speaker claimed that colonialism and oppression are rooted in white supremacy. Which makes no sense because countless civilisations independently practiced colonialism and oppression long before the early modern period.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Frailty-Myth-Redefining-Potential/dp/0375758151

A book arguing that women only appear to be smaller and less muscular than men because of patriarchy, not sexual dimorphism rooted in genetics.

I don't think Pinker cites any of the examples above but I'd call them cases of the blank slate myth at work.