Hmm …

… Overcoming Bias : Sexism Inflation. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

So first it was sexist to suggest human women have lower science ability, then sexist to suggest women have differing tech-job preferences, and now it is sexist to say that in general across species and traits males tend to have more variance because they are selected less often.

I should think it would be obvious to most that Almighty Evolution knew what She was about when She introduced sexual differentiation into the biologic configuration. The object of the game, after all, is reproduction, failing which species cannot survive.The male of any given species is really meant to be at the service of the female. For some — male spiders, for instance — this is a costly enterprise.