| ...that nursery rhyme compliments only half of our society, and that unrealistically. Little girls are just as vicious by nature as little boys, who are not nearly the monsters tradition would have us believe they are
The feminists are absolutely correct when they say that such nursery rhymes are part of a process that maintains traditional sex roles where men are 'adventuresome explorers' and women are those nice people who keep all of society's relationships greased. Feminists hate that. But the societies that practice that are the ones that have come to inherit the Earth. Every single major civilization on Earth, no matter how weirdly different they are in other ways, has the concepts of 'marriage' and 'family' and 'two-parent households.' It's usually the men who 'tinker and explore' and the women who 'maintain home and hearth.' Whatever else one can say about that arrangement, it basically works, where "works" means that the European, Chinese, Indian, Arab, etc. civilizations who follow that basic recipe have blown all other arrangements off the planet. I just love it when some feminist academic trots out a tribe of bush people someplace who eat roots and live in hollowed-out trees, and offers this as an example of a successful society without traditional sex roles. Imagine a world where men have no interest in science or the world around them, and where women bend their social skills toward being mean, vicious backstabbers. What the Hell kind of a society would that make? Who would want to live there? Could such people even maintain a civilization? Sadly, I think we're going to find out the hard way that they can't. I think the Gramscian lunatics are past the tipping point in terms of arranging our societal institutions to produce exactly that sort of adult population. |
Again, I don't see the nursery rhyme as being descriptive. I think the "snakes and snails" part is meant to encourage boys to be curious, adventuresome explorers of the world... just the sort of characteristics in men that feminists hate.