Thank you, Heather. I have two daughters. One, mid 20's, Respiratory Therapist, married, extroverted, happy, bubbly person. The other, early 20's, Desiel Mechanic, single, introverted, hilarious, deep, sarcastic person. Both are very smart in different ways. Both are amazing, caring, beautiful women. Humans come in all different proclivities.
Obviously, you can cram of genes or protein together in space to create a baby . Because what the heck would you call the conception of life on earth ...😂😂 we are the extra terrestrial beings that inhabit this planet 😂😂😂 if aliens come to "earth," Do you think they termed us earth ?? They obviously would be the same as most people here they would see them us as the aliens on an alien world ... think of how weird pasty and fleshy we look 😂😂😂 Ewe humanoid meat bags yuck 🤮
@@foehammer5047 Trans are definitely on the human spectrum. Post ops are technically eunuchs, meaning they lack the capacity to produce serviceable gametes. Still people…
17:14 “Just because you act like a male does not mean you are a male.” Who would have thought this would be the most controversial statement of our time!
Unfortunately the people who need to hear or watch this will never click this video and listen because the title and facts would piss them off from the start. Also, those of us here are moost likely same thought. I dont know how many of us here have the brass to share this or talk of it to our friends in fear of loosing the friendship. Its a crappy situation. Great vid and awesome education. Thank you
One thing to remember is it's all about algorithms, these days. Algorithms creates bubbles, so we all get a 'curated' experience and don't even see facts/opinions outside of our echo chamber. A great tool to further divide us!
OR the people that should hear this, would take e.g. the Lizzard example as proof of THEIR belief. They would go like „see, they act according to their gender, not their sex, so gender is more important“.
Stop being a coward? Stand up for what you know to be true. Stop being afraid of hate speech from bigots and racists. Yes, woke ppl are bigoted and racist. They are the modern-day KKK. Stand up against them, if not for you, for your children!
@@narcissistwhisperer Good for you. Unfortunately it is the louder, often AGP straight male Trans activists who get all the press and also do a lot of the damage to women. Good for you speaking up.
17:12: "...even in lizards,even in lizards. Just because you act like a man,doesn't mean you are a man" Brilliant! that was like a standup comedy setup.
My Dad, father of three girls, was an engineer. He always told us to work just hard and pursue whatever intrigued us. We weren’t given any slack nor free rides. One sister sews professionally and also participates in rough camping and extreme sports. My other sister is an engineer and tackles heavy-duty DIY home projects. I’m less athletic than either of them and pursued a medical degree. We were all tomboys growing up in the 70s and 80s. Somehow it seems as though girls and young women are less empowered compared to that time imo.
@@MichaelMcDonald-my2np Of course you can...depends if you are a fundamentalist Christian or a progressive Christian. Look for a progressive Christian group would be my suggestion.
The rigid binary definition, imposed primarily by the deeply religious, is based on simplistic and misinterpreted information - often intentionally so. Nature creates not just genitalia but in genetic makeups there are differences and in some instances the differences have yet to be discovered. Heather ignores the most blatant of natural mix ups, hermaphrodites' born with male and female genitalia. Physiology and Psychology are complex elements of humanity and making a simplistic binary assertion of sex is inherently ignorant.
Thank you Heather, you described me as a child and now as a woman better than I could have. I have Aspergers and had very distinct gender "dysphoria" until I reached firstly puberty, when boys became interesting in a whole new way, and my twenties when I had my first son. I now have two adult children and 2 grandchildren. Had I not been born in the late 1950s, I strongly believe I would have been referred to a gender clinic and thus have not had my children. Its really upsetting to think they are letting children, who have no concept of adult relationships, or their parents, agree to puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and these mutilations that can't even be called surgeries because they help no one except the surgeon's bank balance!
Thankyou Heather…I’m 68 and I thought with the liberation movement we were passed all this. Being a tomboy has no baring on being a female. It just means you are interested in doing things that typically men did/do. I am a graphic artist by training…I would have been just as happy being a carpenter or an architect. (Men associated professions) This does not mean I want to be a man! In my humble opinion…thanks for the info!!!👍
I'm a "cis female"🤪, but fell in love with Heather..and Brett during COVID lockdown. My love flourished as I began to see how they were so open to "seeing" things unfold before them and everyone else globally. They question with humility and kindness. Thank you for all you do Heather, this presentation was another reflection of your brilliance as a mom, female and human being.
@@vivienneb6199I like how you inadvertently show an example of Heathers Heying's point about women not directly engaging in conflict when you confronted one of her supporters instead of confronting Dr. Heying. I also like your attitude toward 'settled science.' Richard Feynman famously wrote "Science is the Belief in the Ignorance of the Experts"
@@vivienneb6199 but you didn't approach Dr. Heying directly. Sorry that I hurt your feelings. You really take your fandom seriously, I commend you for that.
@@vivienneb6199 if you had approached Heather directly you would have said so and bragged about it, sweetie. Now re-read your responses and remove the condescending tone. And then remove the personal attacks. Then maybe you can have an adult discussion. You're yelling at the cashier instead of writing a letter to corporate headquarters.
Loved this. The chart at the end showing the male/female percentages engaging in different tasks among cultures is fascinating. What a species we have!
This was like a breath of fresh air! This gal is so interesting.. I am a old guy now, grew up in the 60's, and have two sisters, both really nice gals, and as her talk went along, I kept thinking.. "yeah, I 've seen that" it's neat to hear it broken down... my congratulations to Heather
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a textbook Sophist who leverages his expertise in one limited area to pretend to authority on anything and everything else. He should stick to astronomy communication, but (like the aforementioned Sophists) that would hurt his wallet and inflated ego. And Bill Nye is literally a Disney-created dancing monkey who only gets continued attention because his political handlers know how to appeal to nostalgia.
"Here we have some lizard erotica. I'm not calling it p*rn because no one was trying to make a buck taking these pictures." I just love Heather's sense of humor 🤣🤣. Thanks to people like Heather, and groups like Genspect, we finally have politicians (Danielle Smith here in Canada on Jan 31) taking a stand against gender ideology and protecting women and children. You provided all the science on these issues and from very much a pro-human perspective. You all have my heartfelt thanks.
"Here we have some lizard erotica. I'm not calling it p*rn because no one was trying to make a buck taking these pictures." IMO DEER erotica would be an exception...since the participants WOULD be trying to make a BUCK... or some DOE! ;)
The crazy part is .. heather is on the right side of this topic .. she’s actually saving lives .. she and brett are gems on this earth and so compassionate. The Left chewed them up and spit them out. It’s a shame .. she’s so bright and an actual role model for young women ..
The left has taken such a hard turn into fascism its sad, but unfortunately past a certain point on the left it's also inevitable that they turn tyrannical. When they sold their souls for an ideology everyone saw it coming. It amazes Mr that ppl would still vote in Biden after all the damage they've done in four years. After Trump got elected the political climate was going to get much more openly insane say what you want abt Trump his policies to the extent he had them weren't going to fundamentally change the demographics of the national they certainly weren't trying to compel free speech
I love listening to Heather speak. She was the first one, 5 years ago, whose words on this topic planted seeds of doubt (former True Believer, here) and I am SO grateful to have been shaken from my dream-state by Genspect, Dark Horse and the rest. ❤
Fantastic, informative, poignant and beautiful! Thank you so much Dr. Heying for this marvelous presentation that you have so thoughtful prepared! The way you share this information makes it easy to understand and you've also managed to include important nuance ina manner that creates a contextual framework that is scientifically accurate as well as psychologically & culturally "healthy". This perspective & understanding had been missing from the public discourse; replaced with radical and warped ideas that have been wreaking havoc on society, spawning contentious & polarized opinions that are extremely challenging (if not impossible) to resolve since they are fallacious at their premises. I will be downloading this to play for as many of poor, confused & deluded folks as I can get to listen & reconsider this topic from a voice of respectful reason & intelligence!
As a 36yo Chinese gay guy, I fully agree with Heather's reaffirmation of ONLY two sexes. What's going on in the US with non-binary genders and the LGBTQ is completely insane and extreme. It's very sad and perplexing how open-mindedness got twisted into this stupidity, most notably starting with "liberal" democrats. Its become a notable pattern how extremism takes root in every part of American social topics
You represent the ignorance on this issue. Sex and gender are not the same thing. She even said herself that "sex is binary; gender is not, of course."
@@cloudoftime and most segregation between men and women is truly based on sex, not gender. All men are males. All women are females. How people behave, who they like to mate with and how they see themselves are separate matters.
@@racostatorres1 You just contradicted yourself. You said "most segregation" and then you claimed "all". These are not the same thing. How people behave, who they like to date, and how they see themselves is the majority of gender expression and identity.
The problem is that sex has become highly politicized. Like race, disease, climate, etc. And the media has made it very easy to know which opinions are "good" and which are "bad." With the bad opinion holders treated as though they are rabid fascist Nazis.
I have SO much respect for Heather! The only reason I stopped watching her and Bret’s podcast is because Bret went off the deep end on a single topic. He should really take a page from her.
UA-cam is actively suppressing this video. I am on my third attempt to view. The first two attempts, the app simply closed. When I relaunched the app, this video was not in recommended videos, forcing me to go to my viewing history in order to find it. Keep fighting the good fight. Thanks for your bravery.
I love the podcast and UA-cam channel Dr Heyling and her husband produce.....they're open to all science based information, if it's relevant, to come to logical and scientific conclusions....like a professor should be. Thanks for sharing this talk on UA-cam for everyone to enjoy
Brilliantly clear and informative, as one would hope for from an educator, although that is by no means a given in our current climate. Thank you Dr Heying
I'm much like you. Grew up in the 70s and 80s. I enjoyed hiking, fishing, riding my bike, skateboarding, and played flag football. Barbies were stupid to me. I'm so greatful I was born before this craziness. I'm still a tomboy. Still running around in the woods, still fishing, and added target shooting guns to my list. I'm also happily married to a wonderful man.
Very interesting research - it just explained why I (a male) may be able to repair the refrigerator, but can't find the cottage cheese, which my wife plucks out ( I say by witchcraft) in seconds after I have searched for minutes...
Lol! I have to do this for my husband all the time! But, I'm so thankful he drives us in the busy traffic and always gets us where we are going safely. Love my man!❤️
I am in the same boat, although I am a woman. A slight swaying of the leaves that is slightly different from the swaying of the other leaves, and I know immediately there is a mouse down in my bean plants. I can catch a hat whipped off my head by the wind before I've consciously registered that it left my head. But i look all over the fridge for the pickles before my dad has to help me find it. Guess I should call myself a man rather than an outlier. When I ID'd as such, I noticed that I had more of these subtle neurological tendencies (all that she mentioned here) than most of the similarly situated women. Even the variability, being twice exceptional, with a 6-7 standard deviation between some IQ subtests.
I mean, I'm listening to it and you probably mean me. I'm 5 minutes in and have spotted several common errors in her talk. These are so common that I assume Heather knows they are errors and is using them anyway. 1. Gender and sex are not interchangeable terms. She even acknowledges that biologists do not do this. That is because biology recognises them as different. She is lying to you. 2. She claims she would've been forced to transition. No. She wouldn't. Modern gender studies would recognise her as on the spectrum as a gender non-conforming woman at that time. This is really interesting as now she would just be referred to as a woman. Why? In the past gender conforming behavior for a woman would be trad-wife behaviour. It was unusual for a woman to pursue a career in the sciences. Now it is expected, so she conforms to SOCIETY'S idea of what a woman is and how one behaves. This is actually a great example of why sex and gender are different, and why gender is fluid. I had more but it took me so long to type those 2 I forgot. I hope you read this comment and maybe look at what people are saying on the other side. Because we are familiar with your talking points, as I have shown, but do you know ours?
@foehammer5047 "Gender and sex are not interchangeable terms. " Well, this is the foundation of most of the controversy today, isn't it? But here's the thing. Until recently (meaning, until the last several decades), sex and gender were almost *completely* unrelated. The current use of gender is a very recent and very artificial usage. Back when I was studying this stuff for the first time in the late 1960s, the terms "gender" and "sex" were not used interchangeably, because "gender" was not used at all in regards to people. It was a linguistic term, and it applied to the fact that most (but not all) of the world's languages "gendered" their words. In many cases, such as Spanish, these genders were called "feminine" and "masculine", but in other languages, there were other genders, such as “animated” and “inanimate”. Some languages have *three* genders, such as “feminine”, “masculine”, and “neuter”, and some languages even had *four* genders. But the word “gender”, prior to the 1960s was simply *NOT* used in regards to actual people, it was purely a linguistic term. And even though nouns could be gendered and called “masculine” or “feminine”, that had nothing to do with whether those words were, in fact, actually masculine or feminine-this is illustrated by the fact that the most common slang words in Spanish for “penis” and “vagina” are actually feminine and masculine, respectively. So when I was studying languages, the fact that genders were *un*related to the sexes was a point of heavy emphasis. So how did “gender” creep into our language as being related to “sex”? Well, even back then there were some academics who (unbeknownst to the public) who had begun to use the term “gender” as a contrast to “sex”, but that’s not how the word took off, really. What I saw was that many people began to adopt the word “gender” as a substitute for “sex” in conversation. Learning about masculine and feminine genders in language people just assumed gender and sex were synonyms. Note that the 1960s were a time when sex was, for possibly the first time, a major topic of discussion in media (not sure if you’re old enough to remember this, but it was a *major* change in what could be discussed). So you know how when you are writing about something, you simply seek to not use the same word over and over again and will often turn to synonyms so that your writing does not become tired and repetitive. Well, other than vulgar slang, “sex” was wanting for synonyms, but gender (ostensibly being masculine or feminine) was a handy one. And for the prudes out there (and there were many) who were uncomfortable with all this sudden explosion in the use of the word “sex”, the word “gender” provided a more subtle, almost euphemistic alternative, and in the 1970s, “gender” finally came into the mainstream language, and it was simply a synonym for sex. But of course the academics came along and then redefined things. I don’t know when the first academics began to associate gender with biological sex, but I’m quite sure it was a post-WW II phenomenon, and I assume that the concerted effort to distinguish sex and gender in the way we do now was one of the many gifts of the 1970s iterations of deconstructionism. Gender, which prior to the 1960s, had never been commonly associated with biological sex, was briefly applied by the masses as a synonym for biological sex, and then the deconstructionists ripped them assunder again, but not to re-assert the grammatical definition, but a new one, related to sex but not synonymous with it. And after a few decades, we arrive at the point where people can now assert, “Sex and gender are not interchangeable terms” without a hint of irony, yet which causes some of us older folks with a bit of historical knowledge left to wince or laugh, depending on our predisposition. Of course language is always changing, and I’m not a language prescriptivist, so I am not here standing astride the path of progress, demanding that all change “Stop!”. But I *do* prefer it when the changes happen organically as a result of gradual alterations in usage pattern. I’m not fond of the very artificial attempts by people with a political or social goal to deliberately hijack words into meaning something different than they meant five minutes ago. In this particular case, the adoption of “gender” as a synonym for “sex” was something that just happened as a result of the tremendous increase in our discussion of all things related to sex. I guess the adoption of “gender” in service to the very necessary discussion of the clearly socially constructed sex roles in our society made sense, but it wasn’t organic, it was foisted upon language by academics who had a good point to make, and it helped them make it. But now? When we see talk of there being dozens of genders, I think the word is unfortunately going to have trouble holding onto *any* meaning. For the record, I have zero problem with protecting the rights of transexuals/transgendered people. I have no problem with them using the bathroom they are comfortable in, with having protection from employment and other discrimination. So when you say that you wonder if I am familiar with the arguments of the “other side”, I’m not sure what you mean. What do you think my “side” is? Well, like you, this has taken me far longer than I expected, and I need to get ready for work. But also like you, I hope you read this and, if you learned anything you didn’t know, it would be nice to know that. Given the intelligence demonstrated by your writing, I’m 100% positive that you know about the linguistic origins of the term gender. But I wonder if you knew that gender was never about an actual masculine-feminine dichotomy. I wonder if you knew that the use of gender was *exclusively* in linguistic circles as recently as 50-60 years ago, and the artificial construct of gender was its application to things having to do with sex, something which has happened only in our lifetimes (well, my lifetime anyway-I have no idea how old you are). Well, take care.
@@foehammer5047If gender and sex weren't connected, there wouldn't be a drive to get surgery. It'd be fine for any body to adopt any social construct fashion-behaviour trend. That could be healthy, provided there's few different spaces for the sexed bodies different needs. However, that's not the issue. The issue is the very expensive surgery that makes kids infertile, for a hatred of their own bodies induced by social media.
For the differentiation of tasks Heather showed, it helps for the exclusively male tasks like hunting big game or lumbering, to know that men have much greater upper body strength. Numerous studies have shown that even a low average man has more upper body and grip strength than the top 10% of female athletes. Men are better at sprinting to catch prey, women better at endurance to escape predators while carrying infants, because men have more fast-twitch muscle fibers and women have more slow twitch. Men have better movement and depth vision for prey at a distance, women have better color vision which helps them notice shades of babies' skin. There are many more of these anatomical differences that would influence who in a family, tribe or community would be most successful at a task, and thus it would quickly over just a few generations become institutionalized as a gender role. Women's bodies are so fine tuned for supporting gestation, birth and lactation and caring for the utterly helpless human infant, that this should be obvious common sense. Those tasks that don't benefit from male or female traits, like planting or harvesting most traditional crops, can be done by either, and usually the whole group. Heather's table bears out many of the other studies that approach the tasks from other starting points. Humans are good at organizing. They will do what is most profitable and efficient when they can. Heather's talk should be mandatory viewing in all middle and high schools, Departments of Education, state legislatures, and the US Congress.
Thank you Heather Heying, this was fascinating, heart-touching, and full of humor. Thank you for this work, and what you are contributing to the conversation. I agree that the difference has inherent value.
This was an absolutely amazing and balanced talk. These views are treated as hateful and extreme by the woke and can actually get you into trouble, even though these are the evidence-based, intuitive, and well reasoned views.
Arran, she actually lies to you in this talk and I would encourage you to do some research into modern gender studies. Her key lie is that sex and gender can be viewed interchangeably. She admits that biologists don't do this. The reason for most real scientists not using the terms "sex" and "gender" interchangeably is that sex is a clear scientific definition based on reproductive organs, and gender is a social construct which can shift and change, therefore making it unusable as a scientific term. "Female" is scientific and refers to a person's sex. "Woman" is a social idea, and refers to a person's perceived gender. I'm sorry but Heather is unprofessional and lying to you to further her political goals.
"Female" refers to the biological sex of an animal that produces the larger gamete of reproduction, the egg. "Male" refers to the biological sex of an animal that produces the smaller gamete of reproduction, the sperm. "Woman" refers to an adult female of the human species, while "man" refers to the adult male of the human species. It is no different than the distinct terms we gives males and females of other species. A "Jenny" is a female donkey while a "Jack" is a male donkey, a "cow" is a female cattle while a "bull" is a male cattle, etc. Woman is not a so-called "social construct," it is just the delineation we give for an adult human female. It is an identity rooted in biology that is determined at the moment of conception, it cannot be changed. It is not a "feeling."
The data on the division of labor within preindustrial cultures is really interesting and something I'd never given any thought. The middle bit is indeed the most interesting, with the obvious labor intensive tasks that don't require high levels of strength or risk (planting, tending to and harvesting crops) being shared fairly equally in most cultures. The highly gendered but not gender specific tasks are really interesting to me. My initial intuition would be that these would be tasks that don't require a large number of practitioners but do require a high level of task specific skill.
Harvesting is a huge category, which may mean very different things in all those cultures. She proposes, that "it's just a convention who does it", because she assumes that it's always the same thing. It may not be. Then, even within your typical crop harvesting there are different tasks. While everybody cooperates, it does not mean that everybody does the same job. I mean, some harvests are mostly tedium. Others require hard work, expert tool preparation, handling big work animals, building 3D structures, that sort of stuff. You'd expect for gender roles to naturally develop even if everybody participates in the whole process.
@@bakters yeah they categorized it as harvesting but often there are many parts to such picking fruit to washing it etc. Also you would want all hands on harvesting to ensure the crop is secured as quickly as possible.
@@rw-xf4cb Those people who publish the research very often have absolutely no experience in agriculture. There was this guy who investigated ancient Greece, I forgot his name, Hagan or smth. So, he often criticized his fellow academics who wrote a lot about agriculture, while they didn't even do gardening. He did agriculture, specifically to help him in his research. Nowadays we have a similar problem with hunter-gatherers. People who did not harvest a single rabbit in their whole life write a lot of words about how you'd survive by hunting big game with stone tools. Thankfully, it's changing for the better, but they still should ask for advice the enthusiast who actually *do* that stuff way more often.
Division of labor came to be in very recent times. That is the last couple of millennia. Kind of irrelevant if you take into account that we've been walking upright and roaming the Earth for a couple million years.
My father supported me in my ambitions from the time I was born starting in the 1950s so the 1970s was not prehistoric times. I was more like him than my brother was. I love being a woman.
First 2 minutes and this absolute unit just lays out how much of a badass she is. I mean I get shivvers thinking about a local tiny woodland area near my house but going to Mada-friggin-gascar and doing field work there!? Just utter infinite respect for this lady.
To digress from the topic, slavery was common practice by many cultures, including by China, Persia and Barbary pirates (who took and sold white slaves). It is a crazy practice, but many people have been living under a rock in ignorance of the past.
Yes I only found out recently that white people were enslaved by Barbary pirates who were black, I was surprised because I’ve never heard of it before this year
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@@fuzzyx2face And most black slaves were captured and sold by other black tribes.
The word slave derives from the Slavic people of Europe taken by Muslims from Spain during the ninth century AD. White folk did not singlehandedly invent slavery. It's an old, old institution.
Thanks Heather for being so forthright. In discussing various so-called "genders" with people who believe this stuff was "I married a drop-dead gorgeous, spiritual, hospitable and kind woman to have children, we raised 4 children. Why did I have to marry a woman to have children? Could I have had children on my own?"
Been my experience growing up with three brothers, when something needed to be done and they didn’t want to do it including mowing the lawn I had to do it because I saw the need for it to be done. My brothers didn’t seem to ever see a necessity of anything if it interfered with their social calendar. I overhauled engines with my dad and continued to go fishing with him until his last trip, although my brothers lost interest in their teens.
I was always curious about engines etc but my dad wouldn't show me stuff. Maybe because he only had limited time to build cars and wanted to get stuff done when he could - it wasn't like my brothers were learning that stuff either. I kinda wish I could be more like Heather's Dad too 😅
Sounds like you were a non-gender conforming woman. THAT is how modern gender sciences would class you, Heather is lying when she says she would've been forced to transition because she displayed male-coded interested when young. I am glad your father was socially liberal enough to let you explore your hobby despite it being non gender conforming. Heather would have you believe trans ideology would have you strapped to a table and a phallus glues to you. This is not so. The ideology is "gender is a spectrum, nobody should be expected to conform to a binary set of beliefs or values or interests". You want to build cars and wear pretty dresses? Fine. And that's fine regardless of your genitalia. If "trans ideology" is "accept people however they feel most comfortable", why are you so against it?
Wow!! Great presentation. It is sooooooooooo refreshing to hear actual medical facts about sexuality, after hearing all the b.s. that's been thrown around the last few years.
Opportunities are what we make them. Some hard, some easy. Behavior, being more masculine or feminine does not preclude gender. I don’t care what any community says to the opposite. Your biological sex is what defines your gender. Be you mammal ,amphibian, reptile, terrestrial, etc. you can play dress up and choose to augment your body to your desire , but your made up ideology does not negate that universal truth.
This is an excellent summary talk on the evolution of sexual reproduction, sex differences and sex roles in the division of labor. What I don’t see in expositions like this is the cause of these differences. It’s been my observation that they’re all downstream of gamete math: sperm are plentiful and dispensable while eggs are few and precious. The reproductive capacity of a group is related to the number of females, not males. Thus, nature/evolution can afford to experiment and have risk in males relative to females. This explains the differences presented and others. Humans are moderately sexually dimorphic - the gross physical differences between the sexes such as in size and strength - which is used to enable males to perform aggressive and dangerous tasks better, e.g., hunting and war. It explains psychological differences such as greater anxiety in women. Nature wants to protect them. It even explains the greater variance in males across a wide variety of traits. Some of this seems to come from the dwarf Y chromosomes in men so recessive sex-linked genes can present phenotypically with far greater frequency, though I suspect this is only one of the mechanisms.
I cant believe a speech like this is even necessary. We've instinctively known this for millions of years even when we were australopithicines, and now all of a sudden in the last 10 years we think men and women are the same. 🤦
"We" don't all think this utter nonsense. This is promoted, supported, and enforced by Democrat politicians in the White House, Congress, and in Governorships. Of course, the newest Supreme Court Justice Jackson and a reckless, obviously gullible Democrat voting base.
You are so correct! Why should we have to do these studies? Because we have these people with this ludicrous mentality that we have more than two genders. But Im glad we have women like this that speak up with actual intelligence and common sense.
I for one will not be told how to think : men and women are biologically different some people wish to IMPOSE their ideology that DEFIES reality; fact are facts ; gender is biological , J.K. Rowling is right and speaks the truth , that is not hateful or transphobic it is the truth ; it is common sense ; even if there are people who identify as whatever
This wasn't instinctively known. A majority dichotomy in two sexes was observed, not an absolute generalization. And this kind of "we knew this by our feelings" argument is fallacious and unreliable. People also "knew" that the world was flat.
My experience between 5-10 years later was identical. NO one ever eluded to the idea that I was a boy. Never!! Yes, I was a tomboy, but I’ll never, ever allow descriptors like “gender non-conforming” to describe me as I regret the premise that any of the gifts that I have matter or connect to my sex and gender. Frankly, the current gender ideology is maladaptive or failed treatment strategies for social-emotional and mental health disorders at best, and at worst, pure hatred and evil fighting hard to win over hearts and minds. Medical treatments used to chemically castrate criminals (that some consider cruel and unusual punishment) should never be apply to innocent children and sold as the way to love them.
It takes massive balls to get up on stage and tell a room full of feminists that men are better than women at some things. This bespeaks this woman's commitment to the truth, and I absolutely applaud her for it. I hope at the end of all this gender insanity, we will walk away with the ability to mutually respect one another for what both sex brings. And a respect for the differences we have, that make our species what it is. We are experiencing, I would say, almost a crisis of internalized misogyny. Being "girly" is wrong. Wanting to have a family and be nurturing is wrong. Watching entertainment that is generally appealing to women and girls, like romantic comedies, is wrong. No, we must want to go into STEM. We must reject our desire for children,and be focused on our careers. We must watch movies about comic book heroes and star wars. Everything that appeals to women is bad, and proper women must behave like, and have the same interests as men. I am hoping that just like it's okay for some girls to play video games, it will also be OK for girls to dream about their weddings.
Glad to hear some sane voices in this mixup - thank you kindly for the video...have to check out your book - cheers NB: Anisogamy - great word.... Vive la difference!
Harvesting requiered EVERYBODY to pitch in. That was so much work, the entire community had to pitch in, or it just would not get done. Work often was not assigned to best ability but to availability of hands. Men are stronger and women are often more place bound due to the physiological tasks of childbearing- and rearing so it just makes sense to make some task divisions. I think it's more interesting how our society is obsessed with the sexes and what they SHOULD do.
No , people are not obsessed with the sexes. Journalists are obsessed with writing an article about the newest crazy trend, and political agitators are laughing happily cause they can lead such a Big crowd of useful idiots onto stupid parades. Nobody takes the time to think it all through and see the implications.
You are truly a saint, if only everyone as virtuous as you, I’m surprised you haven’t been “canonised” yet…..unfortunately reality is unforgiving, it cares not for anyone’s feelings…..
Can’t believe this is even having to be debated. The west is an absolute embarrassment. Africa, china, Russia, all Arab states must be laughing at us and we deserve it.
Loved the video! Very interesting! I personally would love to know if any animal species exhibits the range of sexual lifestyles or strategies that humans do or if we seem to be unique in that regard. Also another interesting tidbit would be if any animals species that generally have a monogamous mating strategy also have a certain number of outliers within that species which do not adhere to those same rules.
Just one thing, it's not true that men are more likely to have ADHD. They're only more likely to be diagnosed because the tests have been created after studying ADHD in boys, and ADHD tends to present differently in boys and girls.
You hint to it but essentially, it is our purpose as beings to learn how we complement one another and seek to form a harmonic presence that results in one great existence.
Thank you, Heather. I have two daughters. One, mid 20's, Respiratory Therapist, married, extroverted, happy, bubbly person. The other, early 20's, Desiel Mechanic, single, introverted, hilarious, deep, sarcastic person. Both are very smart in different ways. Both are amazing, caring, beautiful women. Humans come in all different proclivities.
Obviously, you can cram of genes or protein together in space to create a baby .
Because what the heck would you call the conception of life on earth ...😂😂 we are the extra terrestrial beings that inhabit this planet 😂😂😂 if aliens come to "earth," Do you think they termed us earth ?? They obviously would be the same as most people here they would see them
us as the aliens on an alien world ... think of how weird pasty and fleshy we look 😂😂😂
Ewe humanoid meat bags yuck 🤮
Except trans, of course. They cannot be recognised as part of the human spectrum.
Your last sentence is really ironic since you are rejecting trans people. Boomers were truly the worst.
@@foehammer5047 Trans are definitely on the human spectrum. Post ops are technically eunuchs, meaning they lack the capacity to produce serviceable gametes. Still people…
@foehammer5047 was that sarcasm or are you serious?
17:14 “Just because you act like a male does not mean you are a male.”
Who would have thought this would be the most controversial statement of our time!
If you have an apple, grapes and a banana you are a man
Well Pinocchio needs to believe he's a real boy or else his world will come crashing down! 😂
Pretty scary eh ?
Masculinity in women
@@hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894 NF Kidding! That THIS is controversial is simply a tragic failure of logical thinking and propaganda! So sad!
Wish Heather had been my biology teacher. Would’ve done lots better and enjoyed more. Great session.
She's on her way. Stay tuned she may come out.
Don't we all!
@@Dickwooten thanks. 💯
Unfortunately the people who need to hear or watch this will never click this video and listen because the title and facts would piss them off from the start. Also, those of us here are moost likely same thought. I dont know how many of us here have the brass to share this or talk of it to our friends in fear of loosing the friendship. Its a crappy situation. Great vid and awesome education. Thank you
One thing to remember is it's all about algorithms, these days. Algorithms creates bubbles, so we all get a 'curated' experience and don't even see facts/opinions outside of our echo chamber. A great tool to further divide us!
OR the people that should hear this, would take e.g. the Lizzard example as proof of THEIR belief. They would go like „see, they act according to their gender, not their sex, so gender is more important“.
I am trans & I seek opposing views. I study psychology, though. I am one that truly seeks understanding & cooperation, not a bubble.
Stop being a coward? Stand up for what you know to be true. Stop being afraid of hate speech from bigots and racists.
Yes, woke ppl are bigoted and racist. They are the modern-day KKK. Stand up against them, if not for you, for your children!
@@narcissistwhisperer Good for you. Unfortunately it is the louder, often AGP straight male Trans activists who get all the press and also do a lot of the damage to women. Good for you speaking up.
17:12: "...even in lizards,even in lizards. Just because you act like a man,doesn't mean you are a man" Brilliant! that was like a standup comedy setup.
Transitioning children is profound abuse
I'm convinced it's a form of pedophilia.
its trans conversion therapy
My Dad, father of three girls, was an engineer. He always told us to work just hard and pursue whatever intrigued us. We weren’t given any slack nor free rides. One sister sews professionally and also participates in rough camping and extreme sports. My other sister is an engineer and tackles heavy-duty DIY home projects. I’m less athletic than either of them and pursued a medical degree. We were all tomboys growing up in the 70s and 80s. Somehow it seems as though girls and young women are less empowered compared to that time imo.
Needs millions and millions of views!
One thousand two hundred million views to be more precise into how many millions. Yes that is roughly the population of the "western world".
You can be LGBT and Christian 👨❤️👨
Just 78k right now!
They need the most help
@@MichaelMcDonald-my2np Of course you can...depends if you are a fundamentalist Christian or a progressive Christian. Look for a progressive Christian group would be my suggestion.
"Are these people crazy?"
"Yes, they are."
Love it XD Thank you, Heather.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I never get tired of hearing Heather speak.
Ditto ❤
@@tootstoyou1ffs she's the only thing worse than her husband and his brother. There's a reason they worked at a no hope institution.
Hypnotic voice, she could do meditation videos lol
The rigid binary definition, imposed primarily by the deeply religious, is based on simplistic and misinterpreted information - often intentionally so. Nature creates not just genitalia but in genetic makeups there are differences and in some instances the differences have yet to be discovered. Heather ignores the most blatant of natural mix ups, hermaphrodites' born with male and female genitalia. Physiology and Psychology are complex elements of humanity and making a simplistic binary assertion of sex is inherently ignorant.
@@douglasrasmussen480 🙃🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you Heather, you described me as a child and now as a woman better than I could have. I have Aspergers and had very distinct gender "dysphoria" until I reached firstly puberty, when boys became interesting in a whole new way, and my twenties when I had my first son. I now have two adult children and 2 grandchildren. Had I not been born in the late 1950s, I strongly believe I would have been referred to a gender clinic and thus have not had my children. Its really upsetting to think they are letting children, who have no concept of adult relationships, or their parents, agree to puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and these mutilations that can't even be called surgeries because they help no one except the surgeon's bank balance!
My background too 🙏
Wow. This was really fascinating and reminds me of what a university prof used to be like. Provide the evidence, dont distort it or twist it.
Old good Ukniversities. Now all educational system is rotten.
University professors have become propogandists for a weird nightmare fairy tale that no one wants
Thankyou Heather…I’m 68 and I thought with the liberation movement we were passed all this. Being a tomboy has no baring on being a female. It just means you are interested in doing things that typically men did/do. I am a graphic artist by training…I would have been just as happy being a carpenter or an architect. (Men associated professions) This does not mean I want to be a man! In my humble opinion…thanks for the info!!!👍
I'm a "cis female"🤪, but fell in love with Heather..and Brett during COVID lockdown. My love flourished as I began to see how they were so open to "seeing" things unfold before them and everyone else globally. They question with humility and kindness. Thank you for all you do Heather, this presentation was another reflection of your brilliance as a mom, female and human being.
@@vivienneb6199I like how you inadvertently show an example of Heathers Heying's point about women not directly engaging in conflict when you confronted one of her supporters instead of confronting Dr. Heying.
I also like your attitude toward 'settled science.' Richard Feynman famously wrote "Science is the Belief in the Ignorance of the Experts"
@@vivienneb6199 but you didn't approach Dr. Heying directly. Sorry that I hurt your feelings. You really take your fandom seriously, I commend you for that.
@@vivienneb6199 if you had approached Heather directly you would have said so and bragged about it, sweetie. Now re-read your responses and remove the condescending tone. And then remove the personal attacks. Then maybe you can have an adult discussion. You're yelling at the cashier instead of writing a letter to corporate headquarters.
No you are female - the term cis is not only unnecessary but also insulting.
Just say normal
Dr. Heying is the voice of reason we need. Listening to her and husband talk is assuring, important and timely.
Loved this. The chart at the end showing the male/female percentages engaging in different tasks among cultures is fascinating. What a species we have!
This was like a breath of fresh air! This gal is so interesting.. I am a old guy now, grew up in the 60's, and have two sisters, both really nice gals, and as her talk went along, I kept thinking.. "yeah, I 've seen that" it's neat to hear it broken down... my congratulations to Heather
Neil deGrasse Tyson should sit down and take a lesson from this.
And bill nye 🙄
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a textbook Sophist who leverages his expertise in one limited area to pretend to authority on anything and everything else. He should stick to astronomy communication, but (like the aforementioned Sophists) that would hurt his wallet and inflated ego.
And Bill Nye is literally a Disney-created dancing monkey who only gets continued attention because his political handlers know how to appeal to nostalgia.
Neil deGrasse Tyson needs to stay in his lane.
"Here we have some lizard erotica. I'm not calling it p*rn because no one was trying to make a buck taking these pictures." I just love Heather's sense of humor 🤣🤣.
Thanks to people like Heather, and groups like Genspect, we finally have politicians (Danielle Smith here in Canada on Jan 31) taking a stand against gender ideology and protecting women and children. You provided all the science on these issues and from very much a pro-human perspective. You all have my heartfelt thanks.
Must be the adaptation of the Listy Argonian Maid
"Here we have some lizard erotica. I'm not calling it p*rn because no one was trying to make a buck taking these pictures."
IMO DEER erotica would be an exception...since the participants WOULD be trying to make a BUCK... or some DOE! ;)
The crazy part is .. heather is on the right side of this topic .. she’s actually saving lives .. she and brett are gems on this earth and so compassionate. The Left chewed them up and spit them out. It’s a shame .. she’s so bright and an actual role model for young women ..
The left has taken such a hard turn into fascism its sad, but unfortunately past a certain point on the left it's also inevitable that they turn tyrannical. When they sold their souls for an ideology everyone saw it coming. It amazes Mr that ppl would still vote in Biden after all the damage they've done in four years. After Trump got elected the political climate was going to get much more openly insane say what you want abt Trump his policies to the extent he had them weren't going to fundamentally change the demographics of the national they certainly weren't trying to compel free speech
They are fake leftists tho
How incredibly illiberal is the notion that if you are a gender non conforming child that you must be in the wrong body 😢
Yes! This comment is spot on!
Absolutely. It's completely sexist
I love listening to Heather speak. She was the first one, 5 years ago, whose words on this topic planted seeds of doubt (former True Believer, here) and I am SO grateful to have been shaken from my dream-state by Genspect, Dark Horse and the rest. ❤
Fantastic, informative, poignant and beautiful!
Thank you so much Dr. Heying for this marvelous presentation that you have so thoughtful prepared!
The way you share this information makes it easy to understand and you've also managed to include important nuance ina manner that creates a contextual framework that is scientifically accurate as well as psychologically & culturally "healthy".
This perspective & understanding had been missing from the public discourse; replaced with radical and warped ideas that have been wreaking havoc on society, spawning contentious & polarized opinions that are extremely challenging (if not impossible) to resolve since they are fallacious at their premises.
I will be downloading this to play for as many of poor, confused & deluded folks as I can get to listen & reconsider this topic from a voice of respectful reason & intelligence!
As a 36yo Chinese gay guy, I fully agree with Heather's reaffirmation of ONLY two sexes. What's going on in the US with non-binary genders and the LGBTQ is completely insane and extreme. It's very sad and perplexing how open-mindedness got twisted into this stupidity, most notably starting with "liberal" democrats. Its become a notable pattern how extremism takes root in every part of American social topics
Queer Theory functioning to advance Maoism with American Characteristics
You represent the ignorance on this issue. Sex and gender are not the same thing. She even said herself that "sex is binary; gender is not, of course."
@@cloudoftime and most segregation between men and women is truly based on sex, not gender.
All men are males.
All women are females.
How people behave, who they like to mate with and how they see themselves are separate matters.
@@racostatorres1 You just contradicted yourself. You said "most segregation" and then you claimed "all". These are not the same thing.
How people behave, who they like to date, and how they see themselves is the majority of gender expression and identity.
The problem is that sex has become highly politicized. Like race, disease, climate, etc. And the media has made it very easy to know which opinions are "good" and which are "bad." With the bad opinion holders treated as though they are rabid fascist Nazis.
This has been one of my favourite videos, if not “ever”, definitely of 2024.
Thank you so much Heather - no surprise - you gave a very important and informative presentation with skill to consolidate for us to understand! ❤
I have SO much respect for Heather! The only reason I stopped watching her and Bret’s podcast is because Bret went off the deep end on a single topic. He should really take a page from her.
UA-cam is actively suppressing this video. I am on my third attempt to view. The first two attempts, the app simply closed. When I relaunched the app, this video was not in recommended videos, forcing me to go to my viewing history in order to find it. Keep fighting the good fight. Thanks for your bravery.
I love the podcast and UA-cam channel Dr Heyling and her husband produce.....they're open to all science based information, if it's relevant, to come to logical and scientific conclusions....like a professor should be. Thanks for sharing this talk on UA-cam for everyone to enjoy
Brilliantly clear and informative, as one would hope for from an educator, although that is by no means a given in our current climate. Thank you Dr Heying
I'm much like you. Grew up in the 70s and 80s. I enjoyed hiking, fishing, riding my bike, skateboarding, and played flag football. Barbies were stupid to me. I'm so greatful I was born before this craziness. I'm still a tomboy. Still running around in the woods, still fishing, and added target shooting guns to my list. I'm also happily married to a wonderful man.
Thank you for posting this scientific presentation by Dr. Heying.
Very interesting research - it just explained why I (a male) may be able to repair the refrigerator, but can't find the cottage cheese, which my wife plucks out ( I say by witchcraft) in seconds after I have searched for minutes...
Lol! I have to do this for my husband all the time! But, I'm so thankful he drives us in the busy traffic and always gets us where we are going safely. Love my man!❤️
I am in the same boat, although I am a woman. A slight swaying of the leaves that is slightly different from the swaying of the other leaves, and I know immediately there is a mouse down in my bean plants. I can catch a hat whipped off my head by the wind before I've consciously registered that it left my head. But i look all over the fridge for the pickles before my dad has to help me find it. Guess I should call myself a man rather than an outlier. When I ID'd as such, I noticed that I had more of these subtle neurological tendencies (all that she mentioned here) than most of the similarly situated women. Even the variability, being twice exceptional, with a 6-7 standard deviation between some IQ subtests.
Excellent talk that will not be heard by the people who most need to hear it.
I mean, I'm listening to it and you probably mean me.
I'm 5 minutes in and have spotted several common errors in her talk. These are so common that I assume Heather knows they are errors and is using them anyway.
1. Gender and sex are not interchangeable terms. She even acknowledges that biologists do not do this. That is because biology recognises them as different. She is lying to you.
2. She claims she would've been forced to transition. No. She wouldn't. Modern gender studies would recognise her as on the spectrum as a gender non-conforming woman at that time. This is really interesting as now she would just be referred to as a woman. Why? In the past gender conforming behavior for a woman would be trad-wife behaviour. It was unusual for a woman to pursue a career in the sciences. Now it is expected, so she conforms to SOCIETY'S idea of what a woman is and how one behaves. This is actually a great example of why sex and gender are different, and why gender is fluid.
I had more but it took me so long to type those 2 I forgot. I hope you read this comment and maybe look at what people are saying on the other side. Because we are familiar with your talking points, as I have shown, but do you know ours?
@foehammer5047 "Gender and sex are not interchangeable terms. " Well, this is the foundation of most of the controversy today, isn't it? But here's the thing. Until recently (meaning, until the last several decades), sex and gender were almost *completely* unrelated. The current use of gender is a very recent and very artificial usage.
Back when I was studying this stuff for the first time in the late 1960s, the terms "gender" and "sex" were not used interchangeably, because "gender" was not used at all in regards to people. It was a linguistic term, and it applied to the fact that most (but not all) of the world's languages "gendered" their words. In many cases, such as Spanish, these genders were called "feminine" and "masculine", but in other languages, there were other genders, such as “animated” and “inanimate”. Some languages have *three* genders, such as “feminine”, “masculine”, and “neuter”, and some languages even had *four* genders. But the word “gender”, prior to the 1960s was simply *NOT* used in regards to actual people, it was purely a linguistic term. And even though nouns could be gendered and called “masculine” or “feminine”, that had nothing to do with whether those words were, in fact, actually masculine or feminine-this is illustrated by the fact that the most common slang words in Spanish for “penis” and “vagina” are actually feminine and masculine, respectively. So when I was studying languages, the fact that genders were *un*related to the sexes was a point of heavy emphasis.
So how did “gender” creep into our language as being related to “sex”? Well, even back then there were some academics who (unbeknownst to the public) who had begun to use the term “gender” as a contrast to “sex”, but that’s not how the word took off, really. What I saw was that many people began to adopt the word “gender” as a substitute for “sex” in conversation. Learning about masculine and feminine genders in language people just assumed gender and sex were synonyms. Note that the 1960s were a time when sex was, for possibly the first time, a major topic of discussion in media (not sure if you’re old enough to remember this, but it was a *major* change in what could be discussed). So you know how when you are writing about something, you simply seek to not use the same word over and over again and will often turn to synonyms so that your writing does not become tired and repetitive. Well, other than vulgar slang, “sex” was wanting for synonyms, but gender (ostensibly being masculine or feminine) was a handy one. And for the prudes out there (and there were many) who were uncomfortable with all this sudden explosion in the use of the word “sex”, the word “gender” provided a more subtle, almost euphemistic alternative, and in the 1970s, “gender” finally came into the mainstream language, and it was simply a synonym for sex.
But of course the academics came along and then redefined things. I don’t know when the first academics began to associate gender with biological sex, but I’m quite sure it was a post-WW II phenomenon, and I assume that the concerted effort to distinguish sex and gender in the way we do now was one of the many gifts of the 1970s iterations of deconstructionism. Gender, which prior to the 1960s, had never been commonly associated with biological sex, was briefly applied by the masses as a synonym for biological sex, and then the deconstructionists ripped them assunder again, but not to re-assert the grammatical definition, but a new one, related to sex but not synonymous with it. And after a few decades, we arrive at the point where people can now assert, “Sex and gender are not interchangeable terms” without a hint of irony, yet which causes some of us older folks with a bit of historical knowledge left to wince or laugh, depending on our predisposition.
Of course language is always changing, and I’m not a language prescriptivist, so I am not here standing astride the path of progress, demanding that all change “Stop!”. But I *do* prefer it when the changes happen organically as a result of gradual alterations in usage pattern. I’m not fond of the very artificial attempts by people with a political or social goal to deliberately hijack words into meaning something different than they meant five minutes ago. In this particular case, the adoption of “gender” as a synonym for “sex” was something that just happened as a result of the tremendous increase in our discussion of all things related to sex. I guess the adoption of “gender” in service to the very necessary discussion of the clearly socially constructed sex roles in our society made sense, but it wasn’t organic, it was foisted upon language by academics who had a good point to make, and it helped them make it. But now? When we see talk of there being dozens of genders, I think the word is unfortunately going to have trouble holding onto *any* meaning.
For the record, I have zero problem with protecting the rights of transexuals/transgendered people. I have no problem with them using the bathroom they are comfortable in, with having protection from employment and other discrimination. So when you say that you wonder if I am familiar with the arguments of the “other side”, I’m not sure what you mean. What do you think my “side” is?
Well, like you, this has taken me far longer than I expected, and I need to get ready for work. But also like you, I hope you read this and, if you learned anything you didn’t know, it would be nice to know that. Given the intelligence demonstrated by your writing, I’m 100% positive that you know about the linguistic origins of the term gender. But I wonder if you knew that gender was never about an actual masculine-feminine dichotomy. I wonder if you knew that the use of gender was *exclusively* in linguistic circles as recently as 50-60 years ago, and the artificial construct of gender was its application to things having to do with sex, something which has happened only in our lifetimes (well, my lifetime anyway-I have no idea how old you are). Well, take care.
@@foehammer5047 You understand that sex is binary, right? Cope ✌️
@@foehammer5047If gender and sex weren't connected, there wouldn't be a drive to get surgery. It'd be fine for any body to adopt any social construct fashion-behaviour trend. That could be healthy, provided there's few different spaces for the sexed bodies different needs. However, that's not the issue. The issue is the very expensive surgery that makes kids infertile, for a hatred of their own bodies induced by social media.
@foehammer5047 what is 'gender'?
Go.
The problem is dealing with this conundrum till it reaches its forgone conclusion.
Heather, you are so greatly appreciated!!!!
I love this woman and her husband so much! Fascinating!
For the differentiation of tasks Heather showed, it helps for the exclusively male tasks like hunting big game or lumbering, to know that men have much greater upper body strength. Numerous studies have shown that even a low average man has more upper body and grip strength than the top 10% of female athletes. Men are better at sprinting to catch prey, women better at endurance to escape predators while carrying infants, because men have more fast-twitch muscle fibers and women have more slow twitch. Men have better movement and depth vision for prey at a distance, women have better color vision which helps them notice shades of babies' skin. There are many more of these anatomical differences that would influence who in a family, tribe or community would be most successful at a task, and thus it would quickly over just a few generations become institutionalized as a gender role. Women's bodies are so fine tuned for supporting gestation, birth and lactation and caring for the utterly helpless human infant, that this should be obvious common sense. Those tasks that don't benefit from male or female traits, like planting or harvesting most traditional crops, can be done by either, and usually the whole group. Heather's table bears out many of the other studies that approach the tasks from other starting points. Humans are good at organizing. They will do what is most profitable and efficient when they can.
Heather's talk should be mandatory viewing in all middle and high schools, Departments of Education, state legislatures, and the US Congress.
thank you Heather for the 'courage' to be an academic .........
Thanks for the basics but so many missed those days at school
Thank you Heather Heying, this was fascinating, heart-touching, and full of humor. Thank you for this work, and what you are contributing to the conversation. I agree that the difference has inherent value.
Excellent presentation.
Excellent lecture, thank you. I'm happy that "real" science always prevails over crazy political ideology.
That’s the Kind of lecture Kids Need at school!
This was an absolutely amazing and balanced talk. These views are treated as hateful and extreme by the woke and can actually get you into trouble, even though these are the evidence-based, intuitive, and well reasoned views.
Arran, she actually lies to you in this talk and I would encourage you to do some research into modern gender studies. Her key lie is that sex and gender can be viewed interchangeably. She admits that biologists don't do this. The reason for most real scientists not using the terms "sex" and "gender" interchangeably is that sex is a clear scientific definition based on reproductive organs, and gender is a social construct which can shift and change, therefore making it unusable as a scientific term.
"Female" is scientific and refers to a person's sex.
"Woman" is a social idea, and refers to a person's perceived gender.
I'm sorry but Heather is unprofessional and lying to you to further her political goals.
@foehammer5047 , you're literally indoctrinated by a cult dude. Wake up.
"Female" refers to the biological sex of an animal that produces the larger gamete of reproduction, the egg.
"Male" refers to the biological sex of an animal that produces the smaller gamete of reproduction, the sperm.
"Woman" refers to an adult female of the human species, while "man" refers to the adult male of the human species.
It is no different than the distinct terms we gives males and females of other species. A "Jenny" is a female donkey while a "Jack" is a male donkey, a "cow" is a female cattle while a "bull" is a male cattle, etc.
Woman is not a so-called "social construct," it is just the delineation we give for an adult human female. It is an identity rooted in biology that is determined at the moment of conception, it cannot be changed. It is not a "feeling."
@JenniferDantchev May I share this?
Simple facts. How they've become so convoluted is mind boggling.
@@foehammer5047how about you menstruate for a couple of decades and then try again explaining what a woman is?
The data on the division of labor within preindustrial cultures is really interesting and something I'd never given any thought. The middle bit is indeed the most interesting, with the obvious labor intensive tasks that don't require high levels of strength or risk (planting, tending to and harvesting crops) being shared fairly equally in most cultures. The highly gendered but not gender specific tasks are really interesting to me. My initial intuition would be that these would be tasks that don't require a large number of practitioners but do require a high level of task specific skill.
Harvesting is a huge category, which may mean very different things in all those cultures. She proposes, that "it's just a convention who does it", because she assumes that it's always the same thing. It may not be.
Then, even within your typical crop harvesting there are different tasks. While everybody cooperates, it does not mean that everybody does the same job.
I mean, some harvests are mostly tedium. Others require hard work, expert tool preparation, handling big work animals, building 3D structures, that sort of stuff. You'd expect for gender roles to naturally develop even if everybody participates in the whole process.
They're things like knitting and sewing - things that every family needs several people to do in order to remain clothed and survive.
@@bakters yeah they categorized it as harvesting but often there are many parts to such picking fruit to washing it etc. Also you would want all hands on harvesting to ensure the crop is secured as quickly as possible.
@@rw-xf4cb Those people who publish the research very often have absolutely no experience in agriculture. There was this guy who investigated ancient Greece, I forgot his name, Hagan or smth.
So, he often criticized his fellow academics who wrote a lot about agriculture, while they didn't even do gardening. He did agriculture, specifically to help him in his research.
Nowadays we have a similar problem with hunter-gatherers. People who did not harvest a single rabbit in their whole life write a lot of words about how you'd survive by hunting big game with stone tools.
Thankfully, it's changing for the better, but they still should ask for advice the enthusiast who actually *do* that stuff way more often.
Division of labor came to be in very recent times. That is the last couple of millennia.
Kind of irrelevant if you take into account that we've been walking upright and roaming the Earth for a couple million years.
My father supported me in my ambitions from the time I was born starting in the 1950s so the 1970s was not prehistoric times. I was more like him than my brother was. I love being a woman.
Imagination does not change genetics.
First 2 minutes and this absolute unit just lays out how much of a badass she is. I mean I get shivvers thinking about a local tiny woodland area near my house but going to Mada-friggin-gascar and doing field work there!? Just utter infinite respect for this lady.
Excellent lecture. Heather is spot on she’s brilliant.
To digress from the topic, slavery was common practice by many cultures, including by China, Persia and Barbary pirates (who took and sold white slaves). It is a crazy practice, but many people have been living under a rock in ignorance of the past.
It’s common to every culture
Yes I only found out recently that white people were enslaved by Barbary pirates who were black, I was surprised because I’ve never heard of it before this year
@@fuzzyx2face And most black slaves were captured and sold by other black tribes.
The word slave derives from the Slavic people of Europe taken by Muslims from Spain during the ninth century AD. White folk did not singlehandedly invent slavery. It's an old, old institution.
I love Heather’s voice and what a great job she does in taking complicated concepts and relating them in a way anyone can understand.
Thanks Heather for being so forthright. In discussing various so-called "genders" with people who believe this stuff was "I married a drop-dead gorgeous, spiritual, hospitable and kind woman to have children, we raised 4 children. Why did I have to marry a woman to have children? Could I have had children on my own?"
Excellent information and fascinating to hear. Thank you for your great scientific work.
Dr. Heying, gonna be amazing!
Sad that we even have to explain such common sense facts
Been my experience growing up with three brothers, when something needed to be done and they didn’t want to do it including mowing the lawn I had to do it because I saw the need for it to be done.
My brothers didn’t seem to ever see a necessity of anything if it interfered with their social calendar.
I overhauled engines with my dad and continued to go fishing with him until his last trip, although my brothers lost interest in their teens.
I was always curious about engines etc but my dad wouldn't show me stuff. Maybe because he only had limited time to build cars and wanted to get stuff done when he could - it wasn't like my brothers were learning that stuff either. I kinda wish I could be more like Heather's Dad too 😅
@@meretriciousinsolent my dad was out to sea a lot of my childhood. But when he retired from the navy he really liked being a family man.
Sounds like you were a non-gender conforming woman.
THAT is how modern gender sciences would class you, Heather is lying when she says she would've been forced to transition because she displayed male-coded interested when young.
I am glad your father was socially liberal enough to let you explore your hobby despite it being non gender conforming. Heather would have you believe trans ideology would have you strapped to a table and a phallus glues to you. This is not so. The ideology is "gender is a spectrum, nobody should be expected to conform to a binary set of beliefs or values or interests". You want to build cars and wear pretty dresses? Fine. And that's fine regardless of your genitalia.
If "trans ideology" is "accept people however they feel most comfortable", why are you so against it?
Thank you so very much Heather for a fascinating talk - brilliant ❤
Wow!!
Great presentation.
It is sooooooooooo refreshing to hear actual medical facts about sexuality, after hearing all the b.s. that's been thrown around the last few years.
Unfortunately for society these days this is a very important discussion to get right! Thanks for this.
Thank you, Heather. Your voice of reason is refreshing during times where insanity is ruling many.
Opportunities are what we make them. Some hard, some easy. Behavior, being more masculine or feminine does not preclude gender. I don’t care what any community says to the opposite. Your biological sex is what defines your gender. Be you mammal ,amphibian, reptile, terrestrial, etc. you can play dress up and choose to augment your body to your desire , but your made up ideology does not negate that universal truth.
Heather is a BOSS!
Love Heather, great presentation!
Brilliant woman. Love her attention to detail. A gem among those seeking truth.
This is an excellent summary talk on the evolution of sexual reproduction, sex differences and sex roles in the division of labor. What I don’t see in expositions like this is the cause of these differences.
It’s been my observation that they’re all downstream of gamete math: sperm are plentiful and dispensable while eggs are few and precious. The reproductive capacity of a group is related to the number of females, not males. Thus, nature/evolution can afford to experiment and have risk in males relative to females.
This explains the differences presented and others. Humans are moderately sexually dimorphic - the gross physical differences between the sexes such as in size and strength - which is used to enable males to perform aggressive and dangerous tasks better, e.g., hunting and war. It explains psychological differences such as greater anxiety in women. Nature wants to protect them. It even explains the greater variance in males across a wide variety of traits. Some of this seems to come from the dwarf Y chromosomes in men so recessive sex-linked genes can present phenotypically with far greater frequency, though I suspect this is only one of the mechanisms.
Thank you Dr. Heying.
True always been 2 never be anything else
Fascinating. Heather is great!
Excellent presentation
Speak from the evidences and nothing else, I really enjoyed it.
45:30 min. In 60 seconds it truly cant get any better than the second question from the man from Jamaica. So beautiful.
I have much respect for Heather and her Husband.
Thank you for this invaluable presentation
Heather and Brett give me hope for my grandchildren
I cant believe a speech like this is even necessary. We've instinctively known this for millions of years even when we were australopithicines, and now all of a sudden in the last 10 years we think men and women are the same. 🤦
"We" don't all think this utter nonsense. This is promoted, supported, and enforced by Democrat politicians in the White House, Congress, and in Governorships. Of course, the newest Supreme Court Justice Jackson and a reckless, obviously gullible Democrat voting base.
You are so correct! Why should we have to do these studies? Because we have these people with this ludicrous mentality that we have more than two genders. But Im glad we have women like this that speak up with actual intelligence and common sense.
Modern day blood letting
I for one will not be told how to think : men and women are biologically different
some people wish to IMPOSE their ideology that DEFIES reality; fact are facts ; gender is biological , J.K. Rowling is right and speaks the truth , that is not hateful or transphobic
it is the truth ; it is common sense ; even if there are people who identify as whatever
This wasn't instinctively known. A majority dichotomy in two sexes was observed, not an absolute generalization. And this kind of "we knew this by our feelings" argument is fallacious and unreliable. People also "knew" that the world was flat.
My experience between 5-10 years later was identical. NO one ever eluded to the idea that I was a boy. Never!! Yes, I was a tomboy, but I’ll never, ever allow descriptors like “gender non-conforming” to describe me as I regret the premise that any of the gifts that I have matter or connect to my sex and gender. Frankly, the current gender ideology is maladaptive or failed treatment strategies for social-emotional and mental health disorders at best, and at worst, pure hatred and evil fighting hard to win over hearts and minds. Medical treatments used to chemically castrate criminals (that some consider cruel and unusual punishment) should never be apply to innocent children and sold as the way to love them.
Thank you, Heather W.
It takes massive balls to get up on stage and tell a room full of feminists that men are better than women at some things. This bespeaks this woman's commitment to the truth, and I absolutely applaud her for it. I hope at the end of all this gender insanity, we will walk away with the ability to mutually respect one another for what both sex brings. And a respect for the differences we have, that make our species what it is. We are experiencing, I would say, almost a crisis of internalized misogyny. Being "girly" is wrong. Wanting to have a family and be nurturing is wrong. Watching entertainment that is generally appealing to women and girls, like romantic comedies, is wrong. No, we must want to go into STEM. We must reject our desire for children,and be focused on our careers. We must watch movies about comic book heroes and star wars. Everything that appeals to women is bad, and proper women must behave like, and have the same interests as men. I am hoping that just like it's okay for some girls to play video games, it will also be OK for girls to dream about their weddings.
Recommending this to everyone!
Awesome talk Heather. Very informative and understandable 🎉
Wow I have an anthropology degree, your division of labor segment is highly interesting.😊😎
Glad to hear some sane voices in this mixup - thank you kindly for the video...have to check out your book - cheers
NB: Anisogamy - great word.... Vive la difference!
thank you, Heather
I was a total tomboy. I ended up going into a career in science too. Thank god I’m GenX for many reasons this among them…
Harvesting requiered EVERYBODY to pitch in. That was so much work, the entire community had to pitch in, or it just would not get done. Work often was not assigned to best ability but to availability of hands. Men are stronger and women are often more place bound due to the physiological tasks of childbearing- and rearing so it just makes sense to make some task divisions. I think it's more interesting how our society is obsessed with the sexes and what they SHOULD do.
Should is such a dangerous word!
If one considers "harvesting" in a more global sense of procuring foodstuff, then hunting can also be considered a kind of harvesting.
No , people are not obsessed with the sexes. Journalists are obsessed with writing an article about the newest crazy trend, and political agitators are laughing happily cause they can lead such a Big crowd of useful idiots onto stupid parades.
Nobody takes the time to think it all through and see the implications.
You are truly a saint, if only everyone as virtuous as you, I’m surprised you haven’t been “canonised” yet…..unfortunately reality is unforgiving, it cares not for anyone’s feelings…..
That was brilliant, thank you very much.
Can’t believe this is even having to be debated. The west is an absolute embarrassment. Africa, china, Russia, all Arab states must be laughing at us and we deserve it.
We are.😂😂
She is correct. Humans produce only two kinds of gametes.
Loved the video! Very interesting! I personally would love to know if any animal species exhibits the range of sexual lifestyles or strategies that humans do or if we seem to be unique in that regard. Also another interesting tidbit would be if any animals species that generally have a monogamous mating strategy also have a certain number of outliers within that species which do not adhere to those same rules.
I would hope a PhD in Biology would know better than any Gender Studies professor. It's literally her field of study.
But .... biology and plain facts is so booooooring. Better go into gender studies any just make up any crazy new ideology you feel like........
Thank you Heather. I’ve been so confused for the past few years. I really appreciate it.
😊 Well done Heather.
Fantastic talk!!
Holy crap, Heather had the job I wanted as a kid. I was so into poison frogs. 😂
Just one thing, it's not true that men are more likely to have ADHD. They're only more likely to be diagnosed because the tests have been created after studying ADHD in boys, and ADHD tends to present differently in boys and girls.
That made me check the video's date. Thought it must be from years ago then. Nope two months. Bit disappointing.
I can understand the mistake, I just wanted to clarify 😊
She is so brilliant!!
You hint to it but essentially, it is our purpose as beings to learn how we complement one another and seek to form a harmonic presence that results in one great existence.