I wonder what society has the smallest difference between men and women. We’ll have achieved true gender equality when women are just as willing to torture someone as men.
That also makes me wonder about game theory thought experiments. The prisoner’s dilemma is really just a sort of logic puzzle. Original (male) researchers gave it the name “prisoner’s dilemma” because that was a situation where they could imagine people choosing “cooperate” or “compete” or whatever. It makes me wonder what the dilemma would be called if the original researchers had been female. Maybe there is a relatable situation for women where there’s a realistic “cooperate” / “compete” table you could make. Maybe a situation where your best outfit is one your friend also has, and you don’t both want to wear the same thing, so do you risk showing up in the same outfit, or wear something slightly less fashionable to avoid that situation?
I wonder what society has the smallest difference between men and women. We’ll have achieved true gender equality when women are just as willing to torture someone as men.
That also makes me wonder about game theory thought experiments. The prisoner’s dilemma is really just a sort of logic puzzle. Original (male) researchers gave it the name “prisoner’s dilemma” because that was a situation where they could imagine people choosing “cooperate” or “compete” or whatever. It makes me wonder what the dilemma would be called if the original researchers had been female. Maybe there is a relatable situation for women where there’s a realistic “cooperate” / “compete” table you could make. Maybe a situation where your best outfit is one your friend also has, and you don’t both want to wear the same thing, so do you risk showing up in the same outfit, or wear something slightly less fashionable to avoid that situation?