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LadyEllen -> RE: Elise Sutton Interviews ME - Female Supremacy (11/13/2006 2:14:14 AM)
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Monday morning ramblings.... ignoring financial status!
We are social animals. In social animal groups there is a pack leader and a hierarchy. An animal becomes pack leader by asserting dominance over the others in the pack, usually by way of physical force.
We are also humans. As humans we do not rely solely on physical force in order to assert and enforce hierarchy and dominance. We also value words, ideas, emotions, spiritual understanding and a host of other elements related to our intellectual functions.
We live in a developed society, in which the use of physical force is by mutual consent illegal, in asserting dominance and hierarchy. Therefore we tend to use our intellectual and emotional skills more, in order to assert and maintain dominance and hierarchy. In this way, even the weakest physical specimens can become dominant, and the strongest physical specimens can occupy lower positions in the hierarchy. Our society has switched to this method of hierarchy formation, relatively recently. Indeed in some parts of our society, physical dominance is still in active use.
This switch in the means of establishing dominance and hierarchy has favoured also women, who whilst generally less able to compete in physical terms, are generally just as able and sometimes more able to compete for dominance and position, in terms of their intellectual and emotional skills. This has naturally brought to the fore, those women so able to compete, in contradistinction to those males who formerly were the dominant factors because of their size and strength and alike with those males who whilst lacking in size and strength, are favoured with intellectual and emotional skills.
When it comes to reproduction, members of the human species will tend to seek out the best possible partner with whom to mate. When physical attributes were more important (and they remain so), these were the main factors governing a single human's possibilities for mating. However as intellectual and emotional factors becomes more important, the mating possibilities of the less physically favoured are increasing. This is because whereas formerly, humans were restricted to mates from a similar position in the physical hierarchy, now humans are able to move outside that physical hierarchy to mate with others with whom they may be at variance in terms of one of the two hierarchies; physical / intellectual-emotional.
Thus, the physically less favoured male, may now be chosen by the physically stronger female, because he is intellectually-emotionally strong. The physically favoured male may now seek out and be chosen by the intellectually-emotional strong female. And so on. (and it is the female who chooses, btw, in our modern society). However, it remains the fact that if one is physically stronger and intellectually-emotionally stronger, then one's chances of finding a mate, remain higher than if one were possessed of only one factor in this duality.
The partner chosen by the female in our modern system, will be one which appeals to her; if she finds physical strength more important, then that will govern her choice, whilst if she finds emotional-intellectual strength more important the same will apply. More usually, she will choose a combination of these two factors in a ratio personal to her.
Females are also people. There is a drive in all people to achieve the highest possible position in the hierarchy. In society, a person lower down the hierarchy can achieve higher status through partnering with another in a higher position in the social hierarchy. In such a situation, the person moving up in general society, will however always remain in an inferior position to their partner and will tend to boost them up, since they rely on their partner's higher social position for their own improved status. Equally, a person higher in the hierarchy might choose a partner from a lower position, in order to retain their superior position in the relationship as well as in general society.
Either male or female can now be the partner which is higher in the hierarchy in general society, and thus in the partnership. However, several other factors play into the notion of female supremacy;
1) Women choose their male partners (this has been studied, often), and so exercise dominance in that way in our modern society
2) Women, whilst unable to compete physically under the old rules, can now compete well in terms of the new intellectual-emotional rules - and often more effectively, and thus achieve dominance in that way
3) Intellectual-emotional factors are now as important as physical factors; males will seek out emotionally-intellectually strong females by whom they hope to be chosen, permitting the female dominance in that way.
Just ramblings.....
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