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    It is not the case that Boys develop a psychological motive to deprecate and dominate women.

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    • 1.Cross-cultural evidence shows significant variation in masculine identity formation, with many societies producing men who lack systematic deprecation of women.
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    • 2.If the deprecation motive were a necessary psychological outcome of separation from female caregivers, its incidence would be culturally invariant, which anthropological data contradicts.
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    • 1.Chodorow's account conflates the structural conditions that may produce certain tendencies with a universal psychological necessity, committing the genetic fallacy.
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    • 2.Even granting that separation anxiety generates some hostility, hostility toward a source of anxiety does not logically entail a stable motive to dominate that source, as Freud's own ambivalence literature demonstrates.
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    • 1.Women predominate in infant care and early child-rearing.
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    • 2.Boys must construct masculine identity by separating from their mother and from the feminine.
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    • 3.The process of separation required for masculine identity formation generates deprecation of what is separated from.
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