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On average.

He makes it clear at the beginning that individuals must be judged as individuals separate from their race or gender.

But, when talking about groups of people, the only way to do it is to use averages.

Girls like to play with dolls more than boys on average. Agree or disagree?

If you agree you're a sexist these days.

Which is a shame because real sexism is walking up to a girl playing with Legos and saying "here sweetie, play with this doll, it's more lady like."

We're now to the point where main stream thought has conflated real sexism perpetrated on an individual with the very mention of statistics of a group.



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