... and then wonder why, having been raised with violence and taught to valourise violence, so few of them are violent? I'm occasionally shocked by women who are habitually violent toward men and how…

Male/female brain differences certainly don’t explain all types of violence. However they do contribute to some such as described in the original post on male gun violence in the US.

I believe an understanding of this phenomenon is helpful…

Many intersex activists are bravely working to end this practice and to ensure that intersex people have autonomy and control over their bodies;

and this:

a generous and kind society, to continue off…

So I wasted time trying to spread the word that the counselling service being offered to folks in my position may be detrimental. Meanwhile she kept winning awards and disseminated toxic tweets without content warnings for Twitter gotchas. I went as far as to try to highlight the issue…

If I may expand on this a little, in late May 2017, new to twitter, I made the regrettable error of pointing out to a cis woman (which despite equivocations to the contrary is not a slur as much as a necessity of taxonomy, in the same way as…

I’m surprised you haven’t accused me of weaponising comas.

I’m relieved you’re familiar with the term as it may help you understand why was so upset by your weaponisation of both gender and mental illness recently. What was exacerbating…

Pretty silly stuff from du Fresne. We tell…

Going back to the original post, there are two examples given of Lost Men – Cesar Sayoc and Robert Bowers. Their behaviour could be described as obsessive, in that they spent a great deal of time and envergy on their preoccupations…

To sum everything up the interaction between genetics and behaviour is very, very complex to put it mildly. Whilst it is very easy to make bold statements such as…

Not to dispute your wider point but just to keep things loosely inclusive, and not going full Labour Party on the issue, if I may correct:

learned gendered behaviour will also be influenced by different cost/benefit results of aggressive behaviour for individuals with…

No it’s not and what aspects are are of course to be remedied by social action – which is what I would say liberal democracy is. Just that attempt to counter our worse nature.

But what is considered to be socially caused has…

I have provided one link and referenced the Dunedin Longitudinal study whose finding on the genetics of male antisocial behaviour is relevant.

If you feel that those two sources are problematic I’m interested…

The…

No, you have provided us with nothing but your reckons ever since this claim:

Males do have a tendency to become obsessed, to hold grudges and to seek revenge. That’s genetics.

If you want to come out with something like that, put some links where your mouth…

Likewise it wasn’t unusual that leading up to the birth the couple continued to entertain by indulging the media a number of times as to whether or not they’d revealed the baby’s sex – going to some substantive lengths to play up…

On the other hand, what Neil has been writing I take very personally, because I’m acutely aware of how the type of absolutist gender binary agenda he’s pushing destroys lives. Our threshold for ‘evidence’ has sunk to extraordinarily…

I’m not sure what you are arguing though, you mention « gendered violence » – are you arguing that there is a different pattern of violence based on gender or not?

Dennis, thanks for your response, I genuinely didn’t. I’ll readily admit – based on feedback I’ve received throughout the years – that despite my ambitions, I’m not particularly able when it comes to conveying my tone accurately in…

.. is what you have not established evidence of. Gendered violence is fraught enough without misleading ourselves about aspects of it.

Incidentally as Erin Pizzey who started the first women’s shelter has recounted – the reason we don’t have ‘peoples refuge or…

The argument is one of variance in a population. Men being predisposed to certain behaviour doesn’t imply some women can’t act in a similar manner.

an important element of people's behaviour.

But inside her lab, it was a very different story, eight former and current colleagues say in interviews with Science. The researchers, all…

Not sure why you keep going for snark. It seems like an important element of men’s behaviour especially in this age of Trump.

The safety net has definitely…

The problem has emerged due to inaccuracy of language usage. The original meaning of racism is belief that one race is superior to the others.

Excluding…

There’s research availabile online and almost daily evidence of male violence motivated by revenge. But if you have a different view I’d be happy to engage.

It's always been this way in NZ. Mental illness was something that you hid away, in asylums or in cottages out…

Not even under the US one. Freedom of speech, as defined in the US Bill of Rights is all about the government not having the power to prevent you speaking,…

Except everything they had said before online.

deny Don Brash his right of free speech

There is no unfettered right to speech, especially under the NZ legal and political system rather than the US one.

That's not pejorative. White nationalism is bigoted from the first principle to the last, and entirely based on racist garbage thought about how white skinned people took over the world because God loves them…

Some pc-drones even tried to deny Don Brash his right of free speech. The moral of such stories is that politics gets more toxic **when disrespect…

The most thorough existing research finds intersex people to constitute an estimated 1.7% of the population*, which makes being intersex about as common as having red hair…

good luck finding a way of expressing that argument without sounding…

Sorry for coming back a day later .. this is the problem with keeping comments too short.
What I meant was that you don't need "an argument for treating men who have transitioned to women as women". They literally are women at…

And it’s up to each individual to decide how they would like to be addressed

That is assuming they know, if they’re even told or figure it out:

For Sterling, the pieces didn’t fall into place until the late 30s.

• Bearing in mind how deep our complicity…

and then there’s sticks and stones that will take you home!

also see: the art of Polynesian wayfinding.

We have all encountered research about the gendered distribution of violence. 'Vengeful' or 'obsessive' behaviour I would like to see some evidence for.

The Accord was…

And I think what we are is in large part the product of…

Side stepping direct confrontation could be one strategy.

Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, head of the Gender Medicine Unit at the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, agrees that things aren’t so simple. “There are differences between men and women when you look in large groups, and these are important…

Social conditioning.

There is no such thing as brain gender.

Across the sample, between 0 and 8 per cent of people had “all-male” or “all-female” brains, depending on the definition. “Most…

What do you make of the gender pattern of perpetrators of mass killings and hate crimes in the US?

Some links to back up that claim would be useful, thanks.

That’s an odd response. I’m not sure what you’re taking issue with.

Men are predisposed to vengeful obsessive behaviour. How this does or doesn’t blur into what could be defined as mental illness has been debated just about everytime something like this…

I remember the arguments over Brevik, I don’t think it went much further than the left and right staking out ideologically convenient positions.

Males do have a tendency…

I looked at his social media. He had become a monster.