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LadyEllen -> RE: Male supremacy or female supremacy (1/15/2007 4:41:19 PM)
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From where I'm sitting, its a hellishly crazy idea that there is anything much in terms of character, learned skills and behaviour, that one could isolate as either male or female - which one would surely need to do first, in order to know which might be superior?
The results of the Bems SRI (Sex role inventory), a psychological research into sex roles and gender identity and all that, produced results time and again, which showed that traits adjudged beforehand as male or female, were selected by both males and females as words they would use to describe themselves. That males selected as many female words as male, and females selected as many male words as female, was significant, and also associated with good psychological health to boot.
Of course, there are differences in socialisation. But how such artificially imposed environmental differences, even were they applied universally and constantly, could then be held to be grounds to distinguish superior/inferior I do not understand. One cannot call a Latino inferior, for not speaking English, if he has never heard a word of our language.
There are also differences in physical form; men are generally physically stronger for instance, but women can produce life from within themselves and feed it, which a man cannot. Difference in this area, does not make for overall superiority of either side. 1 + 2 + 3 = 3 + 2 + 1.
Meanwhile, out in the world we can see the result of supposed superiority of one sex. I dislike picking on the Muslim example, since they get a hard time of it already and theyre not all rabid fundies after all. But, the fundamental Muslim Wahabi creed is very clear that women are inferior - in all ways. And the Wahabis are wrong - in all ways, as I'd hope most here would concur. Such a social structure has no regard to the true natural order, which is not equality, for men and women are not equal in the sense of the same, but equitability. The Wahabi social structure is an offence to human rights, and will fail inshallah, simply because it dismisses half of its potential as inferior.
But, when it comes to playing games - hey, almost anything goes, as long as we all understand its only games after all.
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