“Any appeal to identity politics is evil … full stop.”

And yet … your entire article is precisely that! The truth is that men collectively—which is to say, the majority of men—are privileged over women collectively in certain areas. The opposite is also true. But the discussion about privilege is generally focused on power, and in that arena it is, I think, objectively true that men enjoy privilege.

You dismiss that salient fact with a couple of assertions (men are more confident and less agreeable) without citing your evidence for your assumptions. But for the sake of argument, letʻs grant that both of these assertions are true. They may or may not help explain the power differential—but they do nothing whatsoever to minimize it. The discrepancy remains.

Are you suggesting, then, that biology is destiny and women should accept that they have less access to power due to their own defects and should ..: what? Just get over it?

Every individual is unique, and we cannot know what any one of us has to contribute, regardless of sex, unless we have a relatively level playing field. If we have created systems and structures that favor one sex (or race, or orientation) over others, it is in societyʻs interest to even the odds to the extent possible. How we might accomplish that would seem to me to be a more fruitful discussion.