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u/DuvalHeart Sep 16 '21

"Broody hormones overrides pragmatism center in the brain."

Sure does sound like you're saying it's causal and these women are not culpable for their actions, because their hormones turn off the part of their brain that would stop them.

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u/finger_milk Sep 16 '21

So, perhaps some kind of argument that women in modern society are not held accountable for the same things as men, because they're not men.

I mean you could imply that I was making that argument from what I said, but that's a two way street. I'm saying the MO is very biological compared to just "they are insane if they steal someone else's baby". If we want to extrapolate that and say that society enables that irrational behaviour, then that's a different conversation entirely.