> As an aside, several of my college-educated. women friends - by no means stupid women - are all in for Harris. There is no reasoning with them. And frankly I can’t understand their support for her.
me too (ha ha ha).
since it is not rational, then it must be emotional.
if it is emotional, then could it be something from childhood? i think might.
somehow women at some early time in their lives are being conditioned not to need to think rationally. they are being taught not to think rationally, but emotionally. they are encouraged to think emotionally.
while in theory this can happen any time, i would just throw out the conjecture that this occurs in schools, when girls are between grades 2 through 7 inclusive.
parents who coddle young girls for being cute when they are having temper tantrums may also be partially responsible.
somehow, women expect someone else to defend them. someone else to do math for them. someone else to fix their cars when they need service. someone else to buy homes for them. someone else to pay for bar drinks, trips to cancun, ft. lauderdale, whatever. all leading to divorces (if they are married), boxed wine and cats.
“i want my (whatever)” may be “cute” at age 11, but not nearly as cute at age 51.
maybe the boxed wine / cat ladies are angry at their parents (who may not be in the picture any more) and jealous of their higher social value male counterparts of equal age for having fed them semi-truths (oh you are so cute) which do not justify becoming the foundation of their lives and philosophies... psychologists and anthropologists might research this phenomenon if they have not already done so... i suspect there would be zero tolerance for such cute behavior among young girls in non-western societies...
what i perceive is that young western girls are trained / encouraged to use sex to get men to get what they want. the training includes media marketing— newspapers, TV, movies, books, magazines, etc.
this generally works, but only as far as the girls are and remain sexually attractive. women who never were sexually attractive or who lose their sexual attraction with age become frustrated and then resentful and jealous. they have no rational perspective because they have retained no rational training which are needed to deal with life challenges in an independent manner. the average puberty age of usa women is 11 (corresponding roughly to 6th grade), so perhaps the sex-over-rationality training is largely completed by age 11. so trained at this early age, girls could then utilize the training in benign ways immediately starting at that age, and by the age of consent (varying between 16 and 18 from state to state), they are legally presumed to be able to interact with other adults of all ages and experience in the adult world, not at entry level (like most western males, or at least me lol), but at whatever level their sexual attractiveness can command. such girls then receive even more positive feedback for their “mature” behavior relative to men their age. however western girls generally are not told what to expect on the other side of 30 or on the other side of menopause.