The hardwiring metaphor is an old enlightenment like idea.

Emanuel L. Lusca

·Dec 12, 2020

The hardwiring metaphor is an old enlightenment like idea. It sneaks in additional meaning that the brain is a fixed system that cant change. These types of metaphors are found in all kinds of scientific narratives without ever being analyzed.

He claims that these differences in “hard-wiring” make women more fit for nurturing roles as caretakers, nurses, social workers, and therapists and men more equipped for more lucrative professions as lawyers, scientists, engineers, and bankers.

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