@f0x @shibao >neither party will stop lying about what those differences objectively are
this screwed me over a lot when I was young. not just about the difference between sexes, but everything. what we should be doing, what was fair between people, and very often it came down to how it was foolish to act morally. all the time I'd see stuff, intelligently written, making blanket statements about what people were like, why they acted how they did, and looking back I just didn't realize that it was all bullshit-- so I spent a LOT of time trying to reconcile everything I'd been fed-- I'd find myself thinking in a different completely incompatible framework sometimes each day. not even "reliable" scientific publications were immune to this, and often ended up leading me down the same kinds of rabbit holes that ended up leading to elegant- and correct-looking worldviews that just ended up having damning flaws.
it didn't start in psychology for me but it's why I became so interested in it. I spent a lot of time trying to fit myself into typologies and temperaments etc etc etc. trying to figure out why things weren't working.
took me way too long to realize that often times people don't tell you what's true from their point of view, only what they *want* to be true. this didn't help me figure out what's actually going on, but it did give me a heuristic to use to figure out when someone's lying, and what the shape of that lie might be. It also helped me realize that a lot of the stuff I thought I had learned, sometimes going way back to when I was little, I just had to discard entirely.
this was made easier for me because a lot of the stuff I'd "learned" was nihilistic blackpill shit. but I *have* seen people end up happy, I *have* seen virtue and goodness and stuff like that be rewarded. so it was freeing too.
maybe we just live in an exceptionally bad time for clear thinking. lots of people with lots of different incentives to give wrong explanations. tldr I relate to what you're going through. I'm not beyond it myself I still do this kind of thing a lot. hoping this helps-- or maybe "helps" is too strong a word. but just saying I'm in it too. maybe most people are, in different ways, it's just overwhelming to think about, so they just pick one of these frameworks to live in and avoid looking too far outside it.
hope this was relevant rofl