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[–] ShampocalypseWOW 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I love how these sexist feminists think that the answer is just to simply teach boys to be caring and emotional and poof, no more problems! Because testosterone and the brain structure differences will simply melt away; what could they possibly affect?? Sure, maybe you get rid of all violence that way. Maybe you also get rid of any drive to win or succeed over others as well. Maybe boys grow to think that desire to accomplish anything is a form of aggression against others, so they think it's best and fair to not try. That's just an example of how things could play out, but the point is that we got this far in society by teaching men to be "bread-winners" and women to be "mothers" and we evolved along the lines of each sex being good at their respective roles, which is the kind of teamwork successful species show. The more a species is able to specialize roles, jobs, and tasks within a family and then a social structure, the more successful it will be. When a species does not have that specialization, there is no advantage in teamwork because you essentially will have everyone trying to do the same roles, jobs, and tasks equally, like everyone trying to build a complete car from scratch individually. So yes, men and women ARE different, and it's good that we're different. It's good that we teach boys to be boys and girls to be girls, because we are teaching them things about their predetermined role which they have evolved to excel at. Is this process perfect? Of course not. We see that sometimes men are too competitive, too aggressive, too violent. We also see that sometimes women are too emotional, too nurturing, too protective. Both men and women are each capable of failing to perform their role adequately, and this can happen for many reasons. Sometimes it's just a matter of bad genes or a failure in the developmental process. Sometimes it's the fault of the parents. Sometimes it's that the external forces of the world prevent the child from growing properly. As our world becomes more and more complex, we increase the dimensions in which we must fit into it, and thus create more possibility for failure. But because of our abilities to specialize our roles, not just as men and women but as anything, are constantly increasing, so too are our abilities to adapt to this increasingly complex world. Fitting into the world is more difficult now, but it is that way for both men and women equally, though in different ways.