There are Two and ONLY Two Sexes - Heather Heying

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  • Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
  • Heather Heying is a scientist, educator, and author. She holds a PhD in Biology, and a B.A. in Anthropology, and has conducted research on the evolution of social systems and sexual selection, from frogs to humans. Formerly a visiting Fellow at Princeton, and before that, a tenured professor at The Evergreen State College, she has written two books (Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar and the NYT best-seller A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, co-authored with Bret Weinstein) and writes Natural Selections on Substack. Co-host, with Bret, of the DarkHorse podcast.
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  • @bkkjbradley
    @bkkjbradley 7 місяців тому +348

    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.

    • @manicmadpanickedman2249
      @manicmadpanickedman2249 6 місяців тому

      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
      @foehammer5047 6 місяців тому +7

      Except trans, of course. They cannot be recognised as part of the human spectrum.

    • @iyziejane
      @iyziejane 6 місяців тому

      Your last sentence is really ironic since you are rejecting trans people. Boomers were truly the worst.

    • @realistic_delinquent
      @realistic_delinquent 6 місяців тому

      @@foehammer5047 Trans are definitely on the human spectrum. Post ops are technically eunuchs, meaning they lack the capacity to produce serviceable gametes. Still people…

    • @dynamic75
      @dynamic75 6 місяців тому +6

      @foehammer5047 was that sarcasm or are you serious?

  • @sleepy580
    @sleepy580 5 місяців тому +64

    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.

  • @Pho8os
    @Pho8os 5 місяців тому +195

    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!

    • @obhuicoksetyaetse1
      @obhuicoksetyaetse1 5 місяців тому

      If you have an apple, grapes and a banana you are a man

    • @Anotherguy1st
      @Anotherguy1st 5 місяців тому

      Well Pinocchio needs to believe he's a real boy or else his world will come crashing down! 😂

    • @JAGFamily10
      @JAGFamily10 5 місяців тому +5

      Pretty scary eh ?

    • @hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894
      @hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894 3 місяці тому +2

      Masculinity in women

    • @user-wp7fd7dw7p
      @user-wp7fd7dw7p 3 місяці тому +1

      @@hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894 NF Kidding! That THIS is controversial is simply a tragic failure of logical thinking and propaganda! So sad!

  • @JP-fm1oz
    @JP-fm1oz 5 місяців тому +95

    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

    • @halava68
      @halava68 5 місяців тому +10

      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!

    • @PattisKarriereKarten
      @PattisKarriereKarten 4 місяці тому +1

      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“.

    • @narcissistwhisperer
      @narcissistwhisperer 4 місяці тому +4

      I am trans & I seek opposing views. I study psychology, though. I am one that truly seeks understanding & cooperation, not a bubble.

    • @andrewcrook2240
      @andrewcrook2240 4 місяці тому

      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!

    • @user-wp7fd7dw7p
      @user-wp7fd7dw7p 3 місяці тому +3

      @@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.

  • @lungisangapi6009
    @lungisangapi6009 7 місяців тому +96

    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.

  • @amyb.6368
    @amyb.6368 7 місяців тому +115

    "Are these people crazy?"
    "Yes, they are."
    Love it XD Thank you, Heather.

    • @natalita1528
      @natalita1528 5 місяців тому +1

      👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @lilmoi8820
    @lilmoi8820 7 місяців тому +93

    Needs millions and millions of views!

    • @formes2388
      @formes2388 6 місяців тому +2

      One thousand two hundred million views to be more precise into how many millions. Yes that is roughly the population of the "western world".

    • @MichaelMcDonald-my2np
      @MichaelMcDonald-my2np 6 місяців тому +2

      You can be LGBT and Christian 👨‍❤️‍👨

    •  5 місяців тому

      Just 78k right now!

    • @MichaelMcDonald-my2np
      @MichaelMcDonald-my2np 5 місяців тому

      They need the most help

    • @user-wp7fd7dw7p
      @user-wp7fd7dw7p 3 місяці тому

      @@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.

  • @sdowning9510
    @sdowning9510 7 місяців тому +156

    Wish Heather had been my biology teacher. Would’ve done lots better and enjoyed more. Great session.

  • @4everu984
    @4everu984 3 місяці тому +5

    Dr. Heying is the voice of reason we need. Listening to her and husband talk is assuring, important and timely.

  • @trippinggauntlet4520
    @trippinggauntlet4520 7 місяців тому +134

    I never get tired of hearing Heather speak.

    • @tootstoyou1
      @tootstoyou1 7 місяців тому +5

      Ditto ❤

    • @robleahy5759
      @robleahy5759 7 місяців тому

      ​@@tootstoyou1ffs she's the only thing worse than her husband and his brother. There's a reason they worked at a no hope institution.

    • @tylantroyer7201
      @tylantroyer7201 6 місяців тому +5

      Hypnotic voice, she could do meditation videos lol

    • @douglasrasmussen480
      @douglasrasmussen480 6 місяців тому

      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.

    • @trippinggauntlet4520
      @trippinggauntlet4520 6 місяців тому +4

      @@douglasrasmussen480 🙃🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @AnneAndersonFoxiepaws
    @AnneAndersonFoxiepaws 4 місяці тому +16

    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!

  • @lindachallenger1554
    @lindachallenger1554 6 місяців тому +24

    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!!!👍

  • @markrussell3428
    @markrussell3428 7 місяців тому +130

    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.

    • @BBRocker75
      @BBRocker75 6 місяців тому

      Old good Ukniversities. Now all educational system is rotten.

    • @minitea4315
      @minitea4315 3 місяці тому

      University professors have become propogandists for a weird nightmare fairy tale that no one wants

  • @lisabeeke7162
    @lisabeeke7162 7 місяців тому +98

    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.

    • @WeighedWilson
      @WeighedWilson 7 місяців тому +13

      ​@@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"

    • @WeighedWilson
      @WeighedWilson 7 місяців тому +5

      @@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.

    • @WeighedWilson
      @WeighedWilson 7 місяців тому +8

      @@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.

    • @francishooper9548
      @francishooper9548 7 місяців тому

      No you are female - the term cis is not only unnecessary but also insulting.

    • @user-ox5db4fw5t
      @user-ox5db4fw5t 7 місяців тому +7

      Just say normal

  • @helench6097
    @helench6097 6 місяців тому +30

    Transitioning children is profound abuse

    • @sadagun
      @sadagun 4 дні тому

      I'm convinced it's a form of pedophilia.

    • @turbodewd1
      @turbodewd1 2 дні тому

      its trans conversion therapy

  • @midwestribeye7820
    @midwestribeye7820 5 місяців тому +6

    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.

  • @kimj5037
    @kimj5037 6 місяців тому +63

    "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.

    • @hengineer
      @hengineer 6 місяців тому +2

      Must be the adaptation of the Listy Argonian Maid

    • @stevetennispro
      @stevetennispro 3 місяці тому

      "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! ;)

  • @JumpingCow
    @JumpingCow 6 місяців тому +13

    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!

  • @angelawest9759
    @angelawest9759 6 місяців тому +18

    How incredibly illiberal is the notion that if you are a gender non conforming child that you must be in the wrong body 😢

  • @daveallen8824
    @daveallen8824 6 місяців тому +11

    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...

    • @midwestribeye7820
      @midwestribeye7820 3 місяці тому +2

      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!❤️

  • @ybzdgd77
    @ybzdgd77 5 місяців тому +15

    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

    • @miroirs-jumeaux
      @miroirs-jumeaux 5 місяців тому +1

      Queer Theory functioning to advance Maoism with American Characteristics

    • @cloudoftime
      @cloudoftime 3 місяці тому

      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."

    • @racostatorres1
      @racostatorres1 3 місяці тому

      @@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.

    • @cloudoftime
      @cloudoftime 3 місяці тому

      @@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.

  • @alanbauch2815
    @alanbauch2815 6 місяців тому +19

    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

  • @JAGFamily10
    @JAGFamily10 5 місяців тому +17

    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 ..

    • @superimposedfun
      @superimposedfun 2 місяці тому

      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

    • @Richest_Person_in_the_World
      @Richest_Person_in_the_World Місяць тому

      They are fake leftists tho

  • @CC-xs3jf
    @CC-xs3jf 4 місяці тому +4

    I love this woman and her husband so much! Fascinating!

  • @BS-vx8dg
    @BS-vx8dg 7 місяців тому +27

    Excellent talk that will not be heard by the people who most need to hear it.

    • @foehammer5047
      @foehammer5047 6 місяців тому +1

      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?

    • @BS-vx8dg
      @BS-vx8dg 6 місяців тому +9

      @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.

    • @cyclicozone2072
      @cyclicozone2072 6 місяців тому +4

      @@foehammer5047 You understand that sex is binary, right? Cope ✌️

    • @pagetvido1850
      @pagetvido1850 5 місяців тому +3

      @@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.

    • @zeenuf00
      @zeenuf00 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@foehammer5047 what is 'gender'?
      Go.

  • @Hermetic7
    @Hermetic7 5 місяців тому +7

    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.

  • @rvarnell9165
    @rvarnell9165 6 місяців тому +4

    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.

  • @level9drow856
    @level9drow856 6 місяців тому +24

    Neil deGrasse Tyson should sit down and take a lesson from this.

    • @ashleerazor24
      @ashleerazor24 4 місяці тому +7

      And bill nye 🙄

    • @phoenixshade3
      @phoenixshade3 23 дні тому +2

      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.

  • @DJJonPattrsn22
    @DJJonPattrsn22 7 місяців тому +35

    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!

  • @Arran1994
    @Arran1994 6 місяців тому +26

    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.

    • @foehammer5047
      @foehammer5047 6 місяців тому

      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.

    • @hongo3870
      @hongo3870 6 місяців тому

      @foehammer5047 , you're literally indoctrinated by a cult dude. Wake up.

    • @JenniferDantchev
      @JenniferDantchev 6 місяців тому +4

      "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."

    • @YamieDawnHeen-Orrestead
      @YamieDawnHeen-Orrestead 19 днів тому +1

      ​@JenniferDantchev May I share this?
      Simple facts. How they've become so convoluted is mind boggling.

  • @cjcleveland1
    @cjcleveland1 7 місяців тому +31

    Thank you so much Heather - no surprise - you gave a very important and informative presentation with skill to consolidate for us to understand! ❤

  • @warrenpeece1726
    @warrenpeece1726 5 місяців тому +8

    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.

  • @johnbrown4568
    @johnbrown4568 6 місяців тому +5

    Thank you for posting this scientific presentation by Dr. Heying.

  • @dawnemile7499
    @dawnemile7499 7 місяців тому +11

    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.

  • @hydraxisfrimon9785
    @hydraxisfrimon9785 7 місяців тому +15

    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

  • @studiorelaxingmusic721
    @studiorelaxingmusic721 5 місяців тому +9

    True always been 2 never be anything else

  • @sitarabopayya9100
    @sitarabopayya9100 6 місяців тому +16

    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.

    • @umwha
      @umwha 6 місяців тому +5

      It’s common to every culture

    • @fuzzyx2face
      @fuzzyx2face 6 місяців тому +4

      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

    •  5 місяців тому

      @@fuzzyx2face And most black slaves were captured and sold by other black tribes.

    • @ebonypenguin2899
      @ebonypenguin2899 5 місяців тому

      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.

  • @focusfrost9856
    @focusfrost9856 4 місяці тому +2

    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.

  • @jezebelrebel250
    @jezebelrebel250 7 місяців тому +10

    Excellent lecture, thank you. I'm happy that "real" science always prevails over crazy political ideology.

  • @RebeccaSpence-jc8tf
    @RebeccaSpence-jc8tf 5 місяців тому +3

    Heather, you are so greatly appreciated!!!!

  • @siggyincr7447
    @siggyincr7447 7 місяців тому +20

    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.

    • @bakters
      @bakters 7 місяців тому +4

      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.

    • @lilith3953
      @lilith3953 7 місяців тому +1

      They're things like knitting and sewing - things that every family needs several people to do in order to remain clothed and survive.

    • @rw-xf4cb
      @rw-xf4cb 7 місяців тому +3

      @@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.

    • @bakters
      @bakters 7 місяців тому +4

      @@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.

  • @petebaumbach7944
    @petebaumbach7944 7 місяців тому +12

    thank you Heather for the 'courage' to be an academic .........

  • @LuckysLair
    @LuckysLair 7 місяців тому +10

    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

  • @terrybeaud9348
    @terrybeaud9348 6 місяців тому +8

    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.

  • @jason666king
    @jason666king 6 місяців тому +5

    Heather is a BOSS!

  • @ladytempest7273
    @ladytempest7273 4 місяці тому +2

    Amazing! Heather imo is scary smart!

  • @Stewartaj2010
    @Stewartaj2010 7 місяців тому +34

    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. 🤦

    • @barboglesby2162
      @barboglesby2162 7 місяців тому +1

      "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.

    • @TheFireman328
      @TheFireman328 6 місяців тому

      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.

    • @heatherchandler1184
      @heatherchandler1184 5 місяців тому +1

      Modern day blood letting

    • @youtubefans510
      @youtubefans510 4 місяці тому

      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

    • @cloudoftime
      @cloudoftime 3 місяці тому

      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.

  • @rollinOnCode
    @rollinOnCode 6 місяців тому +9

    Sad that we even have to explain such common sense facts

  • @glenrobinson916
    @glenrobinson916 5 місяців тому +3

    Unfortunately for society these days this is a very important discussion to get right! Thanks for this.

  • @ll1881ll
    @ll1881ll 6 місяців тому +3

    Excellent lecture. Heather is spot on she’s brilliant.

  • @ericswain4177
    @ericswain4177 5 місяців тому +3

    The problem is dealing with this conundrum till it reaches its forgone conclusion.

  • @impossibleagent3663
    @impossibleagent3663 7 місяців тому +19

    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.

    • @meretriciousinsolent
      @meretriciousinsolent 7 місяців тому +4

      Should is such a dangerous word!

    • @barbarakrall4331
      @barbarakrall4331 6 місяців тому +1

      If one considers "harvesting" in a more global sense of procuring foodstuff, then hunting can also be considered a kind of harvesting.

    • @crockmans1386
      @crockmans1386 3 місяці тому

      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.

  • @carolinebratschko5985
    @carolinebratschko5985 6 місяців тому +7

    That’s the Kind of lecture Kids Need at school!

  • @ridleyroid9060
    @ridleyroid9060 6 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @pathacker4963
    @pathacker4963 7 місяців тому +12

    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.

    • @meretriciousinsolent
      @meretriciousinsolent 7 місяців тому +4

      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 😅

    • @pathacker4963
      @pathacker4963 7 місяців тому +2

      @@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.

    • @foehammer5047
      @foehammer5047 6 місяців тому

      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?

  • @kenamaro3942
    @kenamaro3942 5 місяців тому +4

    Sanity !!

  • @miroirs-jumeaux
    @miroirs-jumeaux 7 місяців тому +14

    Dr. Heying, gonna be amazing!

  • @MrRoundwound
    @MrRoundwound 6 місяців тому +2

    Heather and Brett give me hope for my grandchildren

  • @helgashouseofpain
    @helgashouseofpain 6 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @bernhtp
    @bernhtp 6 місяців тому +5

    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.

  • @level9drow856
    @level9drow856 6 місяців тому +5

    I would hope a PhD in Biology would know better than any Gender Studies professor. It's literally her field of study.

    • @crockmans1386
      @crockmans1386 3 місяці тому

      But .... biology and plain facts is so booooooring. Better go into gender studies any just make up any crazy new ideology you feel like........

  • @eliara-thevoice8430
    @eliara-thevoice8430 6 місяців тому +2

    Thank you, Heather. Your voice of reason is refreshing during times where insanity is ruling many.

  • @mcihs2
    @mcihs2 4 місяці тому +2

    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…..

  • @nicoledickens2366
    @nicoledickens2366 7 місяців тому +7

    "Did you ever know you were my hero? And everything I would like to be.." This is why yore great!

  • @cybersnap6072
    @cybersnap6072 7 місяців тому +9

    Thank you Dr. Heying.

  • @davidprice9792
    @davidprice9792 5 місяців тому +2

    I have much respect for Heather and her Husband.

  • @ZumbaNicole
    @ZumbaNicole 6 місяців тому +3

    Excellent information and fascinating to hear. Thank you for your great scientific work.

  • @angelotuteao6758
    @angelotuteao6758 7 місяців тому +6

    Thank you so very much Heather for a fascinating talk - brilliant ❤

  • @Kyle-sr6jm
    @Kyle-sr6jm 5 місяців тому +12

    Imagination does not change genetics.

  • @rep3e4
    @rep3e4 6 місяців тому +3

    Thanks for the basics but so many missed those days at school

  • @danascully1248
    @danascully1248 5 місяців тому +4

    Literally this. I was a perfectly feminine girl but I expressed my femininity, not by nurturing dolls (I hated them!), but by 'nurturing' little bugs I found and my stuffed animals. I loved dinosaurs and finding animal bones, and I tried to take care of bugs that I found injured. I ended up getting told by another kid that I was "more like a boy than a girl".
    I thought about it - I get my animal toys from the boys section (they were schleich animals, back when they made really high quality figurines. These were neither 'boy' or 'girl' toys - they literally looked as realistic as possible for a small plastic animal.) Sometimes i felt like boys clothes had cooler animal designs than girls' ones, since the boy's clothes emphasized the animals musculature more. I didn't ever play with dolls, like princesses, or listen to music (I felt weird not knowing the songs my peers were singing). So i assumed i was a boy! I literally told my mom "I have a boy brain in a girl's body."

  • @mikethomp1440
    @mikethomp1440 5 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @phyllislovelace8151
    @phyllislovelace8151 6 місяців тому +3

    Thank you for this invaluable presentation

  • @barbloft
    @barbloft 4 місяці тому +2

    Fascinating!!

  • @MackerelCat
    @MackerelCat 6 місяців тому +2

    Fascinating. Heather is great!

  • @terranbishop5549
    @terranbishop5549 6 місяців тому +5

    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.

  • @reginazwilling5276
    @reginazwilling5276 7 місяців тому +12

    Excellent presentation.

  • @xavhow
    @xavhow 5 місяців тому +2

    Speak from the evidences and nothing else, I really enjoyed it.

  • @raymulvey9244
    @raymulvey9244 6 місяців тому +1

    Brilliant woman. Love her attention to detail. A gem among those seeking truth.

  • @Somegirl51
    @Somegirl51 7 місяців тому +3

    Thank you, Heather W.

  • @markrussell3428
    @markrussell3428 7 місяців тому +5

    45:30 min. In 60 seconds it truly cant get any better than the second question from the man from Jamaica. So beautiful.

  • @cherylgreene6686
    @cherylgreene6686 5 місяців тому +1

    Awesome talk Heather. Very informative and understandable 🎉

  • @BaltoJohn
    @BaltoJohn 5 місяців тому +2

    Suggesting that greater male variability might explain 29:44 the disproportionately greater number of men at elite levels of STEM fields was what got Larry Summers fired as President of Harvard. He was obviously required to blame the dreaded patriarchy, not something for which blame could not be afixed.

  • @seaschulainn
    @seaschulainn 6 місяців тому +5

    Love Heather, great presentation!

  • @maggienewton8518
    @maggienewton8518 7 місяців тому +5

    thank you, Heather

  • @alexzannoni1501
    @alexzannoni1501 5 місяців тому +2

    Biology is Destiny.......enough said!!

  • @marzipankrabapoulus6371
    @marzipankrabapoulus6371 3 місяці тому

    Absolutely fascinating! Well done.

  • @westcoastblue
    @westcoastblue 7 місяців тому +4

    Recommending this to everyone!

  • @starnejme6902
    @starnejme6902 7 місяців тому +5

    Excellent presentation

  • @Anotherguy1st
    @Anotherguy1st 5 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @stevengill1736
    @stevengill1736 3 місяці тому

    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!

  • @leefischer1313
    @leefischer1313 7 місяців тому +4

    She is so brilliant!!

  • @melissagolden6929
    @melissagolden6929 6 місяців тому +5

    I was with her up to about 29:00 mins in. The study she referenced about women in STEM in Scandinavia completely ignores the context of what gender equality looks like in Scandinavia. What this means is that, the resources afforded to women in Scandinavian countries that allows for women to have financial independence and success is entirely wrapped around the gender roles women are expected to play out. Scandinavia has a robust welfare state that affords women the ability to be mothers with more ease and comforts. The way countries measure “gender equality” is cultural and specific. Ignoring that in favor of an oversimplified explanation of “Women are more free to choose traditional femininity and so they do” completely misunderstands and undermines what the data is actually revealing.
    But apart from that, the evolutionary biology is very interesting and she does seem to have a good grasp on that. She should definitely stick to that and leave the social sciences to others.

    • @SurpriseMeJT
      @SurpriseMeJT 6 місяців тому +4

      Given the freedom to, women (anyone really) chooses what they want.

    • @melissagolden6929
      @melissagolden6929 6 місяців тому

      @@SurpriseMeJT True. And that’s influenced by any number of things, as well as subject to change over the course of one’s life for any number of reasons. And sometimes, you can’t always get what you want even with all the freedom in the world.

    • @robertmadison1205
      @robertmadison1205 4 місяці тому +1

      I dont get your point. If more women in Saudi Arabia become doctors than in Scandinavia, percentage wise, that o viously suggests that feminist liberation does not overcome interest differentials by sex. Ok, so the social welfare systems might provide some noise in the data, but is it that much? (PS I know she didnt mentuin Saudi--I was juat illusyrating a general point).

    • @melissagolden6929
      @melissagolden6929 4 місяці тому +1

      @@robertmadison1205 I would argue that yes, the social welfare of Scandinavian women provides enough noise in the data to make the essential point she was trying to make incorrect. And it stands to reason that in countries with less social welfare for women, that women would turn to higher paying jobs traditionally reserved for men. My overall point is that the study she referenced wasn’t giving what she thought it was giving.

  • @shelleytremper5940
    @shelleytremper5940 5 місяців тому +1

    Fantastic talk!!

  • @marybethprendergast679
    @marybethprendergast679 4 місяці тому +2

    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.

  • @chrisharwood5456
    @chrisharwood5456 6 місяців тому +5

    Brilliant x I think the trans gender ideologists need to watch and pay close attention !

  • @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf
    @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf 7 місяців тому +20

    Good on her. Go science go reality

  • @katespellxx9529
    @katespellxx9529 7 місяців тому +5

    That was brilliant, thank you very much.

  • @squidward6187
    @squidward6187 5 місяців тому +3

    Liars know they are liars. Why do honest people keep acting like eventually they will tell the truth? It's called circling and it's fu*king stupid.

  • @johnbryan2414
    @johnbryan2414 5 місяців тому +3

    The fact that needs explaining is testament to our evolving stupidity. It's that obvious