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Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by whatshisface on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:31PM (#19555910)
It's only a political thing in the minds of the politically-inclined. Since when was autism a cornerstone in anybody's ideology? I think the only reason this is riling people up is that it involves gender in the title.
Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by danharaj on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:58PM (#19556254)
> Since when was autism a cornerstone in anybody's ideology?

Anti-vaxxers?

Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by tertius on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:40PM (#19557837)
This isn't really political. Both the left and the right fall into this camp.
Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by MBCook on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:17PM (#19558676)
Just because it doesn’t neatly fit the normal left/right axis doesn’t make it non-political.
Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:39PM (#19556022)
“Autism-identity” could be considered an idiological movement.
Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by RodericDay on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:04PM (#19556327)
"Men have different distribution of extremes, more dumbasses but also more brilliance, eg. autistic savants, which explains more CEOs and Nobel Prize winners, and therefore systemic sexism is a myth to deny biologically determined outcomes."

it's a very important shibboleth for modern sexists

Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by weberc2 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:33PM (#19557189)
Why would it be important to a sexist? There's nothing about the hypothesis that lends itself to predicting the performance of any individual on the basis of sex. Indeed, it explicitly predicts equality on average. It only threatens the sexist position and supports the egalitarian position (it seems likely that people who are threatened by this hypothesis are actually sexists masquerading as egalitarians).
Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by vixen99 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:20PM (#19557063)
Meaning what?
Re:Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced by weberc2 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:36PM (#19557215)
It would mean that it's unlikely that differences at the top (and bottom, but we mustn't talk about those) are attributable to discrimination.