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"winces* So, I agree that no one is competent and everyone has an agenda, but it's not as if everyone sides with "their" sex."
I didn't mean to imply that they did always side with their physical sex.
Why do you think of the discussion of gender roles and gender equality to necessary break down into a camp for men and a camp for women? By creating two groups you have engaged mental circuitry that will predispose you to dismissing their arguments when they are correct and supporting your own sides' even when they are wrong.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/
http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/