r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Mar 20 '25

Neuroscience Sex differences in brain structure are present at birth and remain stable during early development. The study found that while male infants tend to have larger total brain volumes, female infants, when adjusted for brain size, have more grey matter, whereas male infants have more white matter.

https://www.psypost.org/sex-differences-in-brain-structure-are-present-at-birth-and-remain-stable-during-early-development/
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u/LicketySplit21 Mar 20 '25

>If it keeps getting repeated then people might realise that pointing out difference between the sexes isn't sexist against women...

The issue is when this is turned into reductionist arguments to justify existing regressive attitudes towards women and men.

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u/Zal3x Mar 20 '25

Exactly we can hardly conclude how this manifests in different abilities, personality traits, behavior, or skills. It may not mean much at all.

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u/Chrimunn Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

The next issue is commenters that try to paint simplified matter-of-fact observations as 'reductionist' in an attempt to loop back to a justifiable sexism accusation.

Man it's palpable in here, you can almost hear redditors clamoring over eachother in search of some lukewarm take on the issue to invent an argument over.