Extreme Problems with Essential Differences - 'The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male & Female Brain'

At the beginning of his new book, Simon Baron-Cohen tells us that he is speaking out on a subject that has been taboo: the innate nature of sex differences. I am not sure when or where this topic has been taboo, however, since sex differences have been debated going back to Aristotle. In the mid to late 1800s, Charles Darwin and Gustave Le Bon, who was one of the founders of social psychology, had plenty to say about them - and about the inferiority of women.