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To: Politicalmom
I wrote: Your perspective and perception of reality is severely maimed by your sex.

More precisely, you have allowed your perspective and perception of reality to be severely maimed by the weaknesses inherent in being female. Men rightly and nobly resist many urges in order to do right by women and girls; women have to do the same to do right by men and boys. When they don't -- when they give in to the over-protective, over-mothering, over-emotional instincts that serve the human race well in some applications but not in others, they are no better than men who can't control their own impuses to dominance, force, brute strength, and desire to spread their seed as far and wide as possible.

Men and women can both be very childlike, but in women, it's more destructive, I think.

145 posted on 12/08/2008 3:04:01 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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To: Finny
Men and women can both be very childlike, but in women, it's more destructive, I think.

Burden of proof is on you to defend that one because from where I'm sitting the impulse "to dominance, force, brute strength, and desire to spread their seed as far and wide as possible" has been much more destructive in human history. Wars, concentration camps, gulags, anyone? Not to mention gang rape, sex trafficking, and honor killings.

I hardly think being "over-protective" and "over-mothering" is quite in the same category.

Besides, I don't ascribe to theories that generalize like this. I think women can be as ruthless as men. (Anyone ever read "I, Claudius"?)

151 posted on 12/08/2008 3:10:19 PM PST by GipperGal
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