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LadyEllen -> RE: Researchers identify "male warrior effect" (9/10/2006 12:34:58 PM)
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How fortunate for all these wondrous male contributors to civilisation, that for the first few years of their lives they were able to feed themselves, clean themselves of their poor toilet manners, keep themselves from accident and incident, teach themselves how to speak and understand language and nurse themselves back to health when illness struck.
Maybe men are better suited to banding together for conflict, and better able to pursue war. Maybe this is a good thing, to keep us weaker sorts protected from other men hellbent on the same intentions........ but to whom do they turn to soothe their wounds I wonder? To whom do they scream for help, when their pain exceeds the bearing?
Much as I hate to do so, I agree with seeks; men and women are not equal. However, men and women are equitable and complementary partners in life, and gender roles apart they each have demonstrated ability and the lack thereof, they each have achieved the heights and the lows in every form of human endeavour, and they each are as capable of good and evil as the other.
This is where these debates about male vs female always fall down; that so very few seem to understand that physical sex and gender role are two different things. It is only as gender roles have blurred in more recent times that such debates have even arisen. Men are still men, women are still women, but women especially have been permitted a wider gender role, moving into what was the male gender role. At the same time, the technologies whereby we live have moved on, so that women are now able to not only cross into the male gender role, but also to exceed the men within it. Its only because men feel threatened about this, whilst at the same time they have enjoyed a far reduced increase in scope of gender role than women, that such debates occur.
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