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Great survey article, poor analysis
by WassabiCracker

So, all the way through the article you characterize your two subjects in extreme terminology, calling them evangelists, etc., and characterize things in lampooned terms ("fetishizing testosterone and oxycotin") and yet the best conclusion you can really draw from your piece is "maybe their wrong" (don't forget to add in the raised eyebrow for effect).

Great survey article, examining the landscape of gender difference as percieved by two doctors, but the language used doesn't fit the conclusion drawn or the weight of the analysis. You summarily conclude a number of things ("too complicated" and "still murky") yet ask your readers to accept your premise based on the same conclusory analysis you yourself have used.

There are differences in the male and female brains, this is a physiological fact, until we know for certain what those difference mean and how they manifest themselves, expect medical science to offer various theories and expect the industry to follow suit with experiments to test those theories. If you have something better to offer, other than "nuh-uh," then by all means cough it up.

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