Implicit Bias and You. And Me. And Everyone..

[Arkilogue]

I wonder if 2.5 billions years of the sexual evolution/specialization of DNA itself has anything to do with our implicit biases?

Is "implicit bias" even considerable when human males actually are biologically physically stronger than females?
It may be an implicate bias inherent in the objective context we find ourselves in and as.

Yes,, of course our genetics affects our biases.  10,000 years ago, males protected the females because they were necessary, so they could bear young and nurse and propogate the species.  Males were more expendable (only need a few to empregnate multiple females and have enough genetic diversity) so they were sent out into more danger, hunting and fighting.
Over time society began creating a narrative, females became seen as fragile and weak (as opposed to valuable), and men as strong (as opposed to expendable).

Males are stronger than females is a perfect example of EXPLICIT bias, though.  Human males are, indeed, usually stronger than females.  No denying it.

The implicit bias that often goes along with it is that therefore females are weak.  But that isn't true.  Human females can be perfectly physical strong. Males = strong does NOT mean females = weak, yet we often pass on this implicit bias.  We TEACH it implicitly, for instance, in a play where the house is on fire, and the man saves everyone, including the woman (who was perfectly physical able of saving herself in reality, but we've just shown that she needs a man to do it).

Another example of accompanying implicit bias would be that human males are MENTALLY stronger because they are physically stronger. This is a common implicit bias we see.  Bad news arrives, and the man takes it stoically, while the woman faints.  This isn't a reflection of reality, but something we do in story telling that then creates its own reality.  THAT is how implicit biases are formed.

Also, do you feel about genetics and racial bias?  Are the "races" different, and is that explicit or implicit?  Are we only racist because of tribalism?

Great post, thank you for the elucidation!

I think it goes much deeper than human genetics. (birds) https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...ds-more-c/ For example, females of species that are exposed to predators while incubating tend to have dull colors, although both sexes may be brightly colored in species that nest in tree hollows because the females are less visible to predators.
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The male is the expendable party. There are also no all male species while there many all female species.

And sacrifice of the male still fairly evident in human society both politically and militarily.

As far a racial bias is concerned, there of course is natural explicit tribalism, that's just how we grew up over hundred's of thousands of years. But it becomes adverse when we project our own preconceived/emotional bias on others rather than receive what biases they might be demonstrating. Not to judge them for it yet to accurately assess the information bias the other is projecting in order to safely navigate around them.

For example: As a white guy, if some black guy is yelling at me that "all white people are the devil!" I'm not going to argue with them, I'm going to avoid them. They may have had many experiences of blatant racism against them and feel fully subjectively justified in their implicit bias. Not much I can do in the situation other than not take it personally, nor judge the black man as racist and move on.

We each have many roots of influences in the soil of the past, hidden just under the present surface of time and no one can see them all, even/especially ourselves. Even so, with cultivation and pruning we can all bear good fruits and not be poisonous to each other.