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This Women’s History Month, vive la difference

by Washington Examiner, | 

 

March 21, 2021 12:00 AM

This harrowing, wild, tragic, and eye-opening year has been a different experience for women than for men, as many media outlets have reminded us.

Now, we learn the vaccination experience is also divergent.

First, women were more likely than men to get vaccinated early on. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than 60% of early vaccine recipients were women.

But get this: More than 80% of those reporting severe side effects were women. Something in the vaccine seems to be affecting women more than men.

Scientists are not sure why. Dr. Joseph Gastaldo, an infectious disease physician at OhioHealth, told reporters, “It could be due to antibody production. Women do produce more antibodies compared to men.” There is speculation that it might have something to do with hormones: Estrogen tends to magnify immune responses while testosterone often dampens it.

This CDC study came around the same time a medical journal reported that the highest normal blood pressure for women is 110 over 70, as opposed to the 120 over 80 that has commonly been used as a benchmark. That higher benchmark is appropriate for men, the researchers explained, but women with 120 over 80 blood pressure were at increased risk of a stroke.

If vaccine side effects and the risk of stroke are worse for women, given the same vaccine and the same blood pressure, that tells us a few things worth recalling during Women's History Month.

First off, when the medical establishment sets men’s blood pressure benchmarks as a universal benchmark, that indicates that the establishment has a biased and incomplete view of how human bodies work. A good argument for diversity is that those in power often forget that other people are different from them, thus harming the people out of power.

This points to the second truth revealed by these studies: Women and men are even more different than we assumed.

Medicine and psychology keep turning up differences we didn’t know about before. Women, it turns out, are on average better than men at identifying disgust in a stranger’s facial expression. Men speak in abstract terms more than women do. Women are always colder in the office than men are.

We could go on and on about the differences between men and women established not by folk wisdom but by research scientists and data. Some of these differences are arguably the result of nurture, not nature, but only an ideologue could deny the indelible, significant, inborn differences between women and men. A woman is more than a man with feminine affectations. A man is more than a woman with a masculine look and a deep voice.

And no, generalizations don’t apply to every individual. Some women can throw harder or run faster than some men. Some men are deeply conscientious, and some women are violent and psychopathic. But exceptions don’t disprove general rules.

President Biden honored Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day by creating a “Gender Policy Council” that will try to root out which policies “disproportionately create or maintain barriers for women and girls.”

We applaud this. Too often, men make rules with men in mind, and only with thoughtful consideration can we notice and remedy the rules or systems that exclude or hinder women.

But gender ideology and some strains of feminism that deny sex differences are both taking hold of the Democratic Party. These anti-science belief systems are antagonistic toward Biden’s stated goals. One cannot serve inclusion and pursue equality while falsely positing that men can be women simply by "identifying" as women or while asserting that men and women are different only because of socialization. Those ideologies are averse to nature and opposed to science — and are thus doomed to fail.

God made humans as men and women, science and revelation both declare. Part of what it means to make government and society serve both men and women equally is to avoid pretending that women and men are the same.

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