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@ami_angelwings so long as they avoid the evo-psych just-so stories, yes. But Man the Hunter nonsense not much truthier than Adam in Eden.

@ami_angelwings yes. Understanding that majority case is not universal gets past some of the bigotry; still lots of work on “should” culture

@ami_angelwings … and that would be a good thing, I’m trying to say

@ami_angelwings imagine if we were taught “most people are either men or women” … “most” does a lot of work there

@ami_angelwings yeah. I remember being frustrated that Bohr’s model was known to be wrong but taught anyway, but v useful epistemically

@ami_angelwings binary gender, Bohr’s model of the atom, “Central Dogma” of biochemistry: wrong but useful first approximations.