Another strike against the blank slate

Published February 4, 2022 4:00am ET



The Left wants you to believe that all differences between men and women come from harmful stereotypes created by society. We are all blank slates, the liberal thinking goes, perfectly equal in our wants and skills until the evil patriarchy pushes women into occupations that, in a truly equal society, they would never choose.

Like everything else the Left believes, the blank slate is completely false. Boys and girls are just wired differently, on average, at birth, and they are going to have preferences that match their gender, on average, throughout life.

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