I think part of the debate is well enough resolved by simply agreeing that we are, as groups, different from one another. The attributes of the group are not the attributes of the individual, even if the attributes of the group as a whole are distinctive and predictable.
The debate remains open, perhaps forever, on the question of what to do about it.
Debate itself is a good thing - debate is how societies evolve; lack of debate becomes stasis. What matters is that the debate be honest, and relevant, so that the resulting changes can be useful. When the debate is done for show, stupidity follows in its wake and nobody is happy afterwards.
We went through a phase where many people angrily insisted that there were no meaningful differences at all between men and women, and I don't think too many people were happy about where that lead us, and fewer still were honest about it. Many folks still believe that the wage gap is necessarily a result of overt discrimination, rather than a perfectly obvious difference in preference between these groups. We create insolvable problems for ourselves this way.
I'm old enough to remember when the ERA - a constitutional amendment to make the law gender-blind - was the number one policy goal of those who claimed to be speaking on behalf of women. Equality in everything, including college admissions, hiring, child custody and child support, even the draft. What once seemed like an ideal (it came within one state of ratification) would be considered a disaster today.
Agreed. Especially with his recent confession about being groped, after all. He wishes to stay relevant in the spotlight of this particular issue, which I can understand. In this particular industry (Hollywood, the limelight, what have you) you really must swim or die from the public mind. Polarizing comments will accomplish that objective quite nicely and require very little actual thought, from what I can understand.
On the topic of men vs women, I believe such an age old debate will never truly be resolved. I respect my girlfriend. While she can be very emotional she can also wield a very cold logic. I have always entertained the view that everyone is bound by their genetic coding to some degree but nuture can expand a person much further than nature. That in itself is a debate which may be older than men vs women, frankly.