Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.
Interpretation
Equity feminism advocates for equal treatment of all individuals without delving into biological or psychological differences.
This quote by Steven Pinker highlights the essence of equity feminism as a principle that prioritizes equal treatment for all genders based on moral grounds, while intentionally avoiding potentially contentious discussions about biological or psychological differences. It stresses the importance of focusing on fairness and equality in society, without getting bogged down by debates that could distract from the primary goal of achieving justice and equal rights for everyone.
In practice
During a panel discussion on gender equality, one might quote Pinker to emphasize the importance of focusing on equitable treatment.
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The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth.
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We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.
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Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.
We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.
My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.
We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.
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