i've often noticed that my whole moral psychology seems very unusual compared to the female norm in the west, and i've never been sucked into the Hive Mind either. i have this theory that there are two broad categories of women, mothering and non-mothering.

women of the former category love kids, feel an actual internal *compulsion* to reproduce biologically (and not even just adopt), that can sometimes be crushingly intense. their moral psychology is very distinct from men, and they prefer to copy the beliefs of other trusted women uncritically rather than come up with their own. they avoid overt competition, and their world revolves almost entirely around people and children. if they work outside the home by choice, it's probably with kids or young adults. their hobbies tend to either facilitate engagement with other people or offer simplistic distractions with little intellectual depth to them. the vast majority of women fall into this category.

women of the latter category don't have irrationally positive feelings towards children, don't engage in ritual baby-sniffing, tend to see pregnancy as undesirable if not outright body-horror, and have a more masculine moral psychology. sometimes we even have more masculine-ish patterns of interest (though i've yet to meet a woman who was *more* interested in things than people), and tend to think more independently (though most of us still not as independently as men). we are more likely to have technical and/or overtly competitive interests, like engineering or sports (i have the former, but not the latter - competition is very off-putting to me). i think we tend to get along with & understand men better as well.

i wonder if it's a brain-glitch, a sex hormone imbalance thing, or if it evolved to fulfill a particular purpose. whatever it is, i'm convinced it's immutably hard-wired.