It's Arrogant To Stereotype! #podcast #puredesirepodcast

Personality traits for men and women overlap quite extensively. You know, if you make a bell curve for a trait like even aggressiveness, and you make for men and you make a bell curve, you know, for women, they overlap quite a bit more than you would think. Most of the differences are at the extremes, you know, at the edges where they don't overlap. That's why 90% of the people in prison are male. It's arrogance to have stereotypes, you know, to. To claim certain traits as being, you know, for my sex. If we. What did he say? He said something like chivalry and frankness, you know, and masculine traits, quote, unquote. You know, if we say a woman who has those is showing a masculine side, that's arrogance. And the same on the other side. If a woman says tenderness and gentleness are feminine traits, that's arrogance on her half, on her behalf. So it's a fascinating quote from CS Lewis where he says, let's not be arrogant and claim that we own certain personality traits because, in fact, they do overlap quite a bit.