Nope. Not at all in fact.
Posted on 08/29/2012 11:23:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
MAMMALS are named after their defining characteristic, the glands capable of sustaining a life for years after birth — glands that are functional only in the female. And yet while the term “mammal” is based on an objective analysis of shared traits, the genus name for human beings, Homo, reflects an 18th-century masculine bias in science.
That bias, however, is becoming harder to sustain, as men become less relevant to both reproduction and parenting. Women aren’t just becoming men’s equals. It’s increasingly clear that “mankind” itself is a gross misnomer: an uninterrupted, intimate and essential maternal connection defines our species.
The central behaviors of mammals revolve around how we bear and raise our young, and humans are the parenting champions of the class. In the United States, for nearly 20 percent of our life span we are considered the legal responsibility of our parents.
With expanding reproductive choices, we can expect to see more women choose to reproduce without men entirely. Fortunately, the data for children raised by only females is encouraging. As the Princeton sociologist Sara S. McLanahan has shown, poverty is what hurts children, not the number or gender of parents.
That’s good, since women are both necessary and sufficient for reproduction, and men are neither. From the production of the first cell (egg) to the development of the fetus and the birth and breast-feeding of the child, fathers can be absent. They can be at work, at home, in prison or at war, living or dead.
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oyu sound like my wife.
She has said the same a lot and when she sees this pansy tip toeing, fairy left nuts prancing about as if theyre girls she just shakes her head andwe laugh.
Have you been to a college recently?
Look at the supposed guys there are. Boys today are treated like girls, they can;t get dirty, can;t get a scrape and if they do they have to get ice, and a bandaid
Was on a field trip last year with my youngest and his class and my son fell, scrapped his knee etc.
He got up and walked on, shook it off and a mother came up to him and asked him if he;s alright and then wanted to give him ice etc.
He said no etc and she told him it was alright to cry.
Right away I went over and told her he is no soft pansy and he knows to walk it off, he;s alright and doesn’t need ot be treated like a baby girl
The woman dropped her jaw so much I’m wondering if she has managed to get it back where it goes.
Nope, you’re not. :)
:), My man is only soft with me, and I LOVE that about him.
you also sound like my wife.
She loves to see me work sweat hard, not cry on her shoulder if I get hurt and be a man not a pansy fairy like the left are.
Go to Boston or a college and see the male students. most are pansys who probably never had a fight ion their life and probably can;t even change a lightbulb, wear spanex, a helmet etc.
Nope. Not at all in fact.
“Hmmm, that’s a backhanded defense of men, if I ever heard one.”
George Gilder once wrote that when men aren’t kept at home, and at their familial responsibilites by women, they have a tendency to join warrior societies, like the Spartan hoplites, or mercenary armies, or gangs.
When warrior societies are unrestrained by other, stronger warrior societies, they rape and pillage at will, and it’s the women who are among the first victims.
As Titus Pullo said in the miniseries “Rome” “....kill my enemy, take his gold, enjoy his women.”
He doesn't appear to know what Latin has two words that can be translated as "man" in English. The word homo means man in the sense of human being--any person, male or female. The word vir means man in the sense of a male person.
"Human" (Latin humanus, -a, -um) is from homo.
"Virile" (Latin virilis) is from vir.
You sound like my husband. He has his pains I am know, but he rarely shows it. He was infantry in Vietnam. Bronze star, but he won’t tell me what is was for other than “doing my job”. That was a growl. LOL
Top two! Awesome! Bottom one, not if he was the last “man” on earth!
I LOVE football, but I think she’s nuts. Football is for men or at very least girls playing football against girls would be OK. Of course I am 4”11. LOL.
think she is an idiot who feels she has to prove something and show she is trying to be tough as a man but in the real world she will not be tackled like a guy as most guys don’t want to hurt her.
Fact is no matter how many times the turd pokers or the wmen NAZI’s say otherwise men need women, and women need men and children need a father and a mother
If the left wing turd don’t want to think of a God then they can look at what nature gave us and that was two sexes in the human species, one male and one female, both built differently to please the opposite sex and to reproduce
This is hate speech - anyone recognize that?
Here, let me make it clearer:
Women, Who Needs Them? (New York Times Editorial)
Gays, Who Needs Them? (New York Times Editorial)
Blacks, Who Needs Them? (New York Times Editorial)
Hispanics, Who Needs Them? (New York Times Editorial)
Asians, Who Needs Them? (New York Times Editorial)
The Handicapped, Who Needs Them? (New York Times Editorial)
no we have too many , far too many pansy men if you can even call them that.
Lefty women love these girlie boys because these girlie boys cry , don’t like to get dirty, wear spandex and let the women raise their boys thus their boys now become just like father, another flamer, helmets, shouler pads and knee pads to ride a bicycle and then they get mother , dear mother running out with band aids and ice packs when little pansy gets a little boo boo
LOL, wish I could have seen that. It’s as if they want to make them soft; for what purpose, I don’t know.
I might sound crazy, but to me, a lot of young men these days actually LOOK more feminine.
Hello, I’m Mrs Manc and I do agree with you about men today.
I’m so happy I have a proper masculine man who can d work around this house and is not afraid of some hard masculine work.
LOL,My wife and I do think the same about these feminine men today.
I’ve took my youngest son to soccer games and the way some of these boys are treated like babies is sickening.
Band aids, ice packs for a boo boo which we can;t even see.
These boys will grow up crying on their wifes shoulder every night and follow their wife around like a lost sheep.
The guy who wrote this must hate real men and is probably intimidated by them.
She fears as well as I do that our daughter will never have the chance to marry a proper man.
If you and her were together I could imagine my misses really talking non stop to you about this. LOL
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