Re: CHAT: gender of conlangers

Baba wrote:

> The truth is that a persons' "Brain Sex" is likely to be mixed and few, if
> any folk, have a 100% "male" or "female" brain. Thus, when it comes to
> excellent language skills, all CONLANGERS probably have "female" brains :-).
I still find this to be a little odd reasoning.  My experience is that there is no
relationship between skills/abilities and sexual nature.  I can think of lots
of females in my highschool who were mathematically and/or scientifically
inclined, though not particularly speech inclined.   There were also many
males who were very adept with speech skills, and this phenomenon
holds to such an extent that one would have to have some pretty hefty
data on the nature of sex and gender before one could posit some sort
of connection between that and other faculties in the brain.

I do say, though, that it is probably a better thing to say that all people
are fairly well mixed brainwise, which is in my mind in total agreement
with what I have written above.

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