[Tax-chick]

That's where we differ. I think all qualities are part of human nature, accessible equally to men and women, depending on their personal abilities, and enacted in their cultural circumstances. The qualities themselves, such as leadership, are positive or negative depending on how they are used in specific circumstances.

I reject the premise that all positive qualities are masculine and all negative qualities are feminine.

[Bodleian_Girl]

It’s not attaching a positive or a negative to your God/given characteristics and nature.

It’s just a fact of life.

Napoleon might have had to deal with being short, but he also never had a week of weepy, b*tchy PMS to contend with followed by a week of the discomfort and nuisance of a period.

Imagine, on the battlefield, having to handle that!

If Napoleon were female, he would have been hamstrung 2weeks out of every 4, for the majority of his leadership years.

I think you can apply that across the board, no?

[the OlLine Rebel]

I’m with ya, sister.

Despite the man-denying going on in society lately, there is still a very strong sexism going on which basically assumes anything good is manly, and womanly traits are bad.

Take the pejorative of women being “emotional”. Do men have no emotions? Actually people often assign anger and hostility to men, and those are emotions.

For the other side of the coin, ask the question “picture a murderer”. Guess what will also be assumed?