Posted on 05/28/2002 7:17:49 PM PDT by The Giant Apricots
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If men are the powerful sex....
As the only man ever elected three times to the Board of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in New York City, Dr. Farrell has been listening to both sexes for a quarter of a century and is uniquely able to write in a way that both articulates men's feelings and women feel more love for themen in their lives.
The Myth of Male Power, Dr. Warren Farrell
Really? Nursing and teaching grammar school have been women dominated for a century.
ROTFLMAOL
Men have only ever ruled anything women thought they could deal with and not screw up too much.Mostly men vs men situations.Keeps the peace, dont you know.
Women for centuries have even professed a fear of insects in order for males to feel themselves in a position of power, more so since Winchestor/Ruger/Ingrahm/ Smith $ Wesson became household names.LOL
I do appreciate a healthy dose of true testosterone, but I have never,in my entire life ,seen a "real" man intimidated by a "real" woman. Or vice-versus.
This is not to say I do not believe it can happen,just that I am not automatically overly sympathetic. Case by case basis.It can and does happen, but mostly by men lacking in testosterone or women lacking in estrogen, and either/both filled with insecurity.
1-young boys committ "suicide" during a pleasure enhancing, masturbation ritual in which they "slightly" hang themselves. Obviously, such action has very little room for error.
Old men committ suicide because when a man is no longer able to provide and protect what is the use in living.
2-By 1998 men and women longevity was virtually the same, with women coming down while men went up.
3-Politicians buy women's votes by spending money on breast cancer research, have been buying women's votes for years.
4-Because a) for heterosexual men, their wives spend their money, b) for homosexual men, they spend their money and live for today because their life expentancy average age is 45 years old.
,,, that's the reason the Family Courts exist for.
I have. See my posts and link in #3 & 4. I never said he was God's gift to writers but he makes some very good points in his book. I have been a masculinist for many years. I am also a woman.
Reality is extremely simple: people should, as individuals, pursue the career-and-family paths in life that they are, as individuals, good at. The sole qualifier upon such a pursuit is that no one else's equal rights, especially the rights to have and protect life, should be abrogated on the basis of gestational age, developmental stage, biological sex, race, or ethnicity in the course of that pursuit.
The underlying confusion of this piece appears even here. The author describes an opinion he is advocating as "reality." Unfortunately, in its details this opinion flies in the face of reality, as well as freedom.
Rather than pick apart the many and varied failures of this confused piece, I'll cut to the heart of the matter.
Mr. Flair ignores the fact that men and women are different. I don't mean different in terms that one is oppressed, or that one is better. I mean simply different. They have different capabilities, and they make different choices. Reality reflects this truth. Some fields are dominated by one sex rather than the other due to dissimilar average ability between the sexes. Other fields are dominated by one sex rather than the other not because of physical disparity, but because one sex prefers that field more than the other. Given the undeniable fact of difference between the sexes this is a normal outcome, not a problem to be resolved by social engineering.
Flair displays an ideological fetish for a form of absolute equality divorced from reality. An ideology that treats men and women as indistinguishable and interchangable, and castigates those who disagree, is at war with human nature itself.
As for the workplace, it's changed over the years because everyone's having to work harder - two incomes are necessary in most homes. I'm confident that I could run a home as efficiently as my wife could. We share tasks around our home as a matter of reflex and both hold down day and after hours jobs. Any women wishing to enter the workforce to experience the glamour of supervised employment certainly has my blessing. Any women who run their own businesses have my admiration, as they will work considerably harder.
The phrase "the past" is not constrained to timelimits of one century.
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