You know, you weren't wrong when you said this thread is full of of strawman.
I really don't know what to say. Check my edit, btw.
Actually, no. Let's talk about where you get your facts about
Women and men are not the same and do not have the same interests. Women do not play the same games as men, as a whole, and do not engage in the same activities and do not have the same job preferences.
I want those hard, scientific facts. Educate me. Not that they *are* different, but the why of it.
I am going to start with some sources to get the blood flowing -
http://www.apa.org/research/action/difference.aspx The "why" usually gets into reasons pertaining to evolutionary history and selection. That's beyond my scope of expertise, but if you want to try to raise that as a question to try to make sex differences beem ludicrous, then one may ask why males are physically stronger than females.
As for the APA link, it is addressing the the overstatement of sex differences, and there are quite a bit--that is why I stated that brain lateralization study results are often inflated (particularly in the popular press), and looking at the study it doesn't really address anything about preference in activities.
Dwelving further there's some further writing here with commentary on that study, and apparently another researcher noted the same thing, that interests and job preferences aren't noted there:
http://www.academia.edu/2439418/An_...e_on_gender_similarities_and_differencesAnother sharp criticism that is while men and women are probably mostly alike (which I think almost everyone agrees with), the areas where they differ may be nonetheless important.
By the way, this is how science is really done, through journals. An anonymous author's write up taking a stance isn't gospel, and although I don't really think it's wrong, it's overstated, basically "men and women are mostly the same...but, uh, there are a few differences." Hyde's study was a metaanalysis and used prior research on particular cognitive and behavior measures. This isn't the first time I've seen something like that on the APA website and it won't be the last time I see it either.
