I was imagining a ritual where a devoted feminist cuts off an end of their finger, as a symbolic castration of the internalized patriarchy.
But the official version is that digit ratios are influenced by sex hormones. So if something correlates with the digit ratio, it suggests that it could correlate with the sex hormones. Essentially, the question seems to be: “Are our political opinions about feminism influenced biologically by our sex hormones?” Of course, even if we see a correlation, it wouldn’t immediately prove that feminism is determined biologically… but it is a piece of data that is interesting and easy to collect, so we collect it.
I was imagining a ritual where a devoted feminist cuts off an end of their finger, as a symbolic castration of the internalized patriarchy.
But the official version is that digit ratios are influenced by sex hormones. So if something correlates with the digit ratio, it suggests that it could correlate with the sex hormones. Essentially, the question seems to be: “Are our political opinions about feminism influenced biologically by our sex hormones?” Of course, even if we see a correlation, it wouldn’t immediately prove that feminism is determined biologically… but it is a piece of data that is interesting and easy to collect, so we collect it.