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Well, there used to be jokes about stupid women seeing non existent color differences and making big deal about them. As in women being crazy and their husbands rational having to deal with that.

Meanwhile, color blindness in overwhelmingly make issue.




You don't have to invoke color-blindness or tetrachromacy to explain that. Even normal trichromatic people will have differences of opinion about shades of blue or green. But every difference of opinion that might involve gender will always be exaggerated.


My mom is color blind (so passes the test, but just barely), my dad very color blind. We still make those jokes.


Women have a small chance to be tetrachromats, so yeah they can see colors others have trouble with.




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