> I’m a woman and if someone assumes I’m a man I don’t care.
See, it is a very obvious mistake that since you are woman you
experience life and reality the same as men or view versa. I mean
that is pretty elementary.
> I don’t see men as being below me inherently at all.
No kidding.
> I view people on an individual basis.
In terms of gender, there are only two.
> Is it naive of me to expect that from my society at large?
Your society, eh?
So,seriously, what is it you are trying to provoke her? Why do you
ask this question? Can you give any example of when you saw a
MAN, not a boy, you said a MAN, was mistaken for a woman? Is this
a common occurrence for you?
I supposed there is some way, or they are some women who think in those terms, but I don't think it is a large sample - so, of course there is a "way", it's just irrelevant.
In general men are sort of programmed to think they are superior, and if they are not superior in reality, they are generally more aggressive. It's like how boys outshout girls in elementary school, but when you separate girls from boys the girls do as well or better.
It's like how boys outshout girls in elementary school, but when you separate girls from boys the girls do as well or better.
That’s interesting and so obvious and simply put. In my grade school some of the kids came from very poor and rough neighborhoods and actually, it was the girls who were the loudest and verbally aggressive, even to the boys. Not all of them, but like you say, the ones who didn’t really shine at anything. I was the only one who I know of who stood up to them and ended up in physical fights that I always won. They picked on me because I got good grades and I won medals in sports so I was strong.
So what’s my point? I’ve always believed that insecurity makes people aggressive and oppressive and I believe that’s the underlying cause of the oppression of women. Not that women are superior but obviously they’re capable of doing many things that are crucial to the survival of the species that men can’t do and so those things are disparaged.
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I think the weird thing about evolution has more to do with women and their kind of intelligence. Think about how the slavers in the West went to Africa and choose the strongest men to be slaves. Then a hundred years later they bred super healthy and strong black people who are now amazing athletes and it backfired on them. A similar thing with women occurred. Women were dominated physically, so they had to develop the social skills, and the ability to hide their agenda and be clever to get what they wanted. Now a lot of women are great in business because they have the patience and the people skills where many men just rely on a corrupt good old boys network that is collapsing over time, and now they are trying desperately to bolster it and keep in place using money and technology.
That’s much food for thought! It would seem then, that women should make very good interrogators and intelligence agents as well.
I’ve read theories that explore the possibility of prehistoric matriarchies. They speculate and look for evidence that proves that in the not so distant past, men and women were physically much more evenly matched in strength. Supposedly after a worldwide patriarchal revolution that took thousands of years to complete globally, the matriarchies were overthrown, after which, people were “bred” to reduce the size and strength of the women.
How would that work?? I don’t know. People can breed dogs to reduce their size but can they breed them to make one sex of the breed small and the other sex large? No idea.