[gleeaikin]

I have no way to prove it, but I suspect that women played a considerable part in developing gardening, weaving, pottery, cooking, sewing, etc. Fighting and warfare not so much, but maybe that’s a good thing. ;-)

[Finny]

No argument there. But it was men who invented the weaving machines, who forged the gardening and sewing tools, who created the kilns for firing the pottery, etc. Fighting and warfare are only one part of what men do best. They solve problems, they fix things. They work together to do it.

Not that women don't -- we do, but in a different way that men cannot. I believe that as men are far superior to women in brute strength, we are far superior to them in a different kind of strength, a mental toughness. We supply strength and spiritual foothold to men and it has the same outcome as the great things they supply for us; together, we thrive (hey, I sound like that lady in those Kaiser Permanente ads!!).

Can you tell I'm intensely, deeply sexist?
{^) God bless and Merry Christmas!