Scientists discover women are more competitive with each other than men

The "sisterhood" is a myth, Women can be hugely bitchy towards one-another

Scientists discovered that women were more competitive with other women than men are with other men, upending decades of stereotypes.

“I must admit the findings stunned me,” study author Dr Joyce Benenson, a human evolutionary biologist at Harvard, told London’s The Sunday Telegraph. “The accepted wisdom both within evolutionary biology and psychology is that men are the more competitive sex.”

However, Benenson also found the results only applied for same sex assessments. “Men are more competitive towards women than women are towards men,” she said.

The scientists have not yet found out why women are more competitive with each other than men are, but speculate it may be to do with raising children.

“We do not know why this is, but theoretically it is likely that women with children need resources more than men with children do,” Benenson explains.

“Women generally are the primary caregivers around the world. Therefore, women would be more envious than men of someone with lots of resources that they did not have.

“The implications of the results for understanding human society are important in that they indicate that while women and men employ different competitive strategies and often pursue different goals, women may have an even greater motivation to compete with same-sex peers than men,” the researchers write in their study, published in Scientific Reports.

“Thus, it seems reasonable that women may be more envious than men of same-sex peers who are better able to care for their children.”

Benenson conducted a study on 596 parents of both sexes who had children. Each person was shown a hypothetical individual who had a desirable asset that most people would want, such as a nice car or house, and asked to think about how that person would be judged by their real-life friends and family.

Half of the almost 600 people in the study were asked to think about how this person would be viewed by men in their life, and the other half asked to assess how women they knew would see the individual.

Research into the competitiveness between genders has been ongoing for decades and has often been cited as part of the gender pay gap issue.

A 2019 study found that women were less likely to try again after losing out in a competition, adding to previous findings that women are more likely than men to shy away from any form of competition.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/scientists-discover-women-are-more-competitive-with-each-other-than-men-20230409-p5cz4q.html

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The Media Washes Its Hands of the Bragg Indictment

There are two ‘medias’. There are the clickbait ranters out front and the smarter folks in the back who address a more literate audience. For the longest time they were on the same page when it came to Trump. Both hailed the Mueller investigation and the associated investigations. But, with the Bragg indictment, there’s a break.

I chronicled a few of those yesterday with Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern and Vox’s Ian Milhiser, the legal people for two of the big names in lefty digital media, washing their hands of the indictment.

The Trump Indictment Is Not the Slam-Dunk Case Democrats Wanted – Mark Joseph Stern/Slate

The dubious legal theory at the heart of the Trump indictment, explained: Ian Millhiser/Vox

There are now even stronger voices in the lefty legacy media backing far away from it.

The Trump indictment is a dangerous leap on the highest of wires – Ruth Marcus/Washington Post

The Trump Indictment Is a Legal Embarrassment – Jed Handelsman Shugerman/New York Times

Both of these are the sorts of media folks you might expect to be using strong language in attacking Trump, not in attacking a case against him.

Much like Communist propaganda, you can read as much into the boosters as the bashers. Here’s Jennifer Rubin, a woman who sold her soul to defend and project virtually any lefty power meme, playing defense. "Bragg doesn’t show all his cards in his case against Trump" – Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post

The confidence here is overwhelming.

The media is moving away from this. It doesn’t want to invest in the Bragg case the way that it did in the Mueller investigation and it’s very loudly signaling not to hold it accountable.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-media-washes-its-hands-of-the-bragg-indictment/

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One MSM blackout needs to happen… here’s why

Professionals have long striven to analyze and treat mental illness. The magnitude of an individual’s degree of mental illness often depends on various circumstances.

Many emotionally challenged people act out in an effort to gain attention. This is somewhat like an emotionally immature child throwing a temper tantrum to get their way.

Some people never grow out of this damaging behavior. It morphs into what is referred to as “Histrionic Personality Disorder” (HPD). The condition is characterized by an unhealthy drive to constantly seek attention.

Psychology experts believe the condition can evolve from “a brain-wiring response to early developmental trauma caused by neglect.”

As America continues to mourn the tragic deaths of dozens of shooting victims, these comparisons are being made about those who commit these heinous crimes. What compels these lunatics to secure a weapon and open fire on innocent people? How can someone justify indiscriminately killing other people?

Some experts believe it’s a thirst for attention. These mentally unstable individuals are starved for attention. As they drift deeper into their mental illness, they realize one sure way to get that attention.

Kill those who they believe ignore them and get themselves plastered all over every television set and computer screen across the nation.

These crazy mass shooters, especially those who are shooting innocent children at our schools, are seeking attention. As soon as the smoke settles from another insane killing spree, a flood of media attention ensues.

These people get exactly what they want: publicity and fame! Liberal talk show host Bill Maher believes this is a huge part of the problem. Many experts agree.

If the media would stop glamorizing these horrific events, the appeal for public notoriety would be erased. Maher thinks we need to take drastic steps.

The HBO host thinks there needs to be an immediate blackout on media coverage of mass shootings. He believes the more media attention given to the killers, the greater the number of those who will be inspired to kill.

This seems like such a logical strategy. The more the drama-seeking media promotes this insanity, the more frequently these tragedies happen. To boost ratings, brainless media moguls are fueling a devastating crisis. If the news cycle would stop glorifying this insanity and the legal system would adequately punish those who kill, we might get a handle on this crisis and at the same time save lives.

https://patriotclash.com/msm-blackout-needs-to-happen-heres-why/

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I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle

I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.

For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I’m now married to a transman, and together we are raising my two biological children from a previous marriage and three foster children we hope to adopt.

All that led me to a job in 2018 as a case manager at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, which had been established a year earlier.

The center’s working assumption was that the earlier you treat kids with gender dysphoria, the more anguish you can prevent later on. This premise was shared by the center’s doctors and therapists. Given their expertise, I assumed that abundant evidence backed this consensus.

During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager—I was responsible for patient intake and oversight—around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors. The majority of them received hormone prescriptions that can have life-altering consequences—including sterility.

I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to “do no harm.” Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.

Today I am speaking out. I am doing so knowing how toxic the public conversation is around this highly contentious issue—and the ways that my testimony might be misused. I am doing so knowing that I am putting myself at serious personal and professional risk.

Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling.

Soon after my arrival at the Transgender Center, I was struck by the lack of formal protocols for treatment. The center’s physician co-directors were essentially the sole authority.

At first, the patient population was tipped toward what used to be the “traditional” instance of a child with gender dysphoria: a boy, often quite young, who wanted to present as—who wanted to be—a girl.

Until 2015 or so, a very small number of these boys comprised the population of pediatric gender dysphoria cases. Then, across the Western world, there began to be a dramatic increase in a new population: Teenage girls, many with no previous history of gender distress, suddenly declared they were transgender and demanded immediate treatment with testosterone.

I certainly saw this at the center. One of my jobs was to do intake for new patients and their families. When I started there were probably 10 such calls a month. When I left there were 50, and about 70 percent of the new patients were girls. Sometimes clusters of girls arrived from the same high school.

This concerned me, but didn’t feel I was in the position to sound some kind of alarm back then. There was a team of about eight of us, and only one other person brought up the kinds of questions I had. Anyone who raised doubts ran the risk of being called a transphobe.

The girls who came to us had many comorbidities: depression, anxiety, ADHD, eating disorders, obesity. Many were diagnosed with autism, or had autism-like symptoms. A report last year on a British pediatric transgender center found that about one-third of the patients referred there were on the autism spectrum.

Frequently, our patients declared they had disorders that no one believed they had. We had patients who said they had Tourette syndrome (but they didn’t); that they had tic disorders (but they didn’t); that they had multiple personalities (but they didn’t).

The doctors privately recognized these false self-diagnoses as a manifestation of social contagion. They even acknowledged that suicide has an element of social contagion. But when I said the clusters of girls streaming into our service looked as if their gender issues might be a manifestation of social contagion, the doctors said gender identity reflected something innate.

To begin transitioning, the girls needed a letter of support from a therapist—usually one we recommended—who they had to see only once or twice for the green light. To make it more efficient for the therapists, we offered them a template for how to write a letter in support of transition. The next stop was a single visit to the endocrinologist for a testosterone prescription.

That’s all it took.

When a female takes testosterone, the profound and permanent effects of the hormone can be seen in a matter of months. Voices drop, beards sprout, body fat is redistributed. Sexual interest explodes, aggression increases, and mood can be unpredictable. Our patients were told about some side effects, including sterility. But after working at the center, I came to believe that teenagers are simply not capable of fully grasping what it means to make the decision to become infertile while still a minor.

https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids

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http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)

http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)

http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)

http://australian-politics.blogspot.com (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)

http://snorphty.blogspot.com/ (TONGUE-TIED)

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