Submitted by Ben Barres (not verified) on Sun, 2006-08-13 10:01.

Dear Chris,

When an advantaged group of people calls a disadvantaged group innately less able, you must forgive the disadvantaged folks if they try to defend themselves.

In case of interest, I have posted a response to Lawrence, Pinker, and Dierker correspondences on the Nature gender blog at:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2006/07/does_gender_matter.html#comment-31672

Ben Barres

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