In the thread from three years ago, there is definitely some rather strong gender essentialism present. He considers the categories meaningful, and he says that empirically he hasn't ever seen them violated in a specific way. ("I have never known a man with a true female side, and I have never known a woman with a true male side, either as authors or in real life.")

Eliezer undoubtedly interprets all of this in an evolutionary way, and one of the ironies of evolutionary gender essentialism is that the gender categories are considered meaningful b... (read more)