For years now we’ve been told something that flies in the face of common sense: that men and women are essentially the same, and that any differences we observe are merely the result of “social conditioning”. If only parents, teachers and society behaved differently, boys and girls would turn out the same.
Anyone who has raised children of both sexes knows this simply isn’t true.
John Stossel’s recent video tackles this taboo head-on, and it’s refreshing precisely because it says out loud what most people quietly observe. From a very early age — long before schooling, media influence or “gender norms” can reasonably explain it — boys and girls behave differently. They gravitate toward different toys, different types of play, different levels of risk and competition. These are not moral judgements. They are observations.
The argument that these differences are entirely “learned” collapses even further when you look beyond humans. Baby monkeys, raised without pink aisles or toy trucks, display sex-based behavioural differences almost immediately after birth. If that’s “societal conditioning”, then society has extended itself remarkably into the animal kingdom.
Stossel revisits decades of research that has been quietly sidelined because it conflicts with modern ideology. On average — and averages matter at a population level — men are more risk-taking, more competitive, more drawn to novelty. Women, again on average, are better at reading emotions, more nurturing, and more risk-averse. There are, of course, exceptions in every direction. But pretending the averages don’t exist doesn’t make them disappear.
This matters because entire institutions are now being reshaped around the denial of these differences. Universities, workplaces and even schools are being redesigned under the assumption that unequal outcomes must be evidence of discrimination. If men dominate certain fields, it must be sexism. If women dominate others, it is celebrated as progress. The possibility that different choices, preferences and temperaments play a role is treated as heresy.
Stossel also highlights a deeper problem: the refusal to talk honestly about sex differences has consequences. Boys are falling behind in education. Merit and excellence are being replaced by quotas and “equity”. Academic freedom is sacrificed to emotional safety. And institutions meant to pursue truth increasingly shy away from it.
None of this is an argument for inequality before the law. Quite the opposite. Equal rights, equal protection, equal opportunity — these are pillars of a free society. But equality does not require sameness. And trying to force sameness, especially by denying biology, ends up harming everyone.
The video is worth watching in full, not because it offers a neat ideological answer, but because it restores something badly missing from the debate: honesty. You don’t have to agree with every point to recognise that silencing discussion about biological differences between men and women is neither scientific nor humane.
Reality, inconvenient as it may be, has a way of asserting itself. The question is whether we choose to acknowledge it — or continue pretending that chromosomes don’t matter, even as the evidence keeps piling up.
(Watch the full John Stossel video below.}
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