oops - "too PC" should have been too politically incorrect!
Ann White wrote:
> Not sure how many are interested in this theory but here's a very recent
> article:
>
> http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i26/26a01201.htm
>
> Fairly comprehensive airing of sides for his theory, though not alot of
> depth. Baron-Cohen says it's testerone levels. His naysayers ask: why
> then do any females exhibit autism?
>
> I think we're talking apples & oranges when it comes to empathy &
> systems. Apples = cultural patterning. Oranges = genetic predisposition.
> Baron-Cohen says he's been convinced of the maleness of autism since the
> 1990s but it was too PC to advance in the US. Now that the (cultural)
> climate is receptive (ie the extreme end of the intelligence pendulum
> has dipped to new lows), he is coming out with his ideas.
>
> There are (of course, what else) tests on the web for autism and empathy.
>
> Ann
>
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