Originally posted by ILS
Care to elaborate on what is harmful about men being masculine and women being feminine?Indeed. But first, let's make sure we have more female computer programmers, eh? Need to have priorities.
I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of those espousing your current arguments. Nobody is in a hurry to replace men with women in careers where it requires high levels of physical labour or mortal danger, despite those fields being dominated by men.
What most men have is shit, ulcers, heat attacks, and a lot of jobs they hate but have to do.
Originally posted by UnbowedThe way I see it, certain men have to do those shit jobs because they lack the social/emotional intelligence (that women typically have more of than men) to do the social work women do.
Feminists claim they want what men have, but what they really want is what 0.01 of men have, and they want it by default, without effort. They don't know what it takes to get there.What most men have is shit, ulcers, heat attacks, and a lot of jobs they hate but have to do.
Now who's fault is it?
Originally posted by UnbowedStupid men are to blame for their own misfortunes (poor health, shit jobs, etc). It's their fault. They're emotionally weak. Many classical feminists assert the idea that the physical power that men possess is overpowered by the emotional/social strengths that women possess, coupled with mens' emotional fragility.
Who's fault is what?
Elshtain's Public Man, Private Women says this (which I agree with):
"In a second early discussion of male and female natures, men were called an
…obsolete life form. He is an anachronism in this technological context. His muscles are no longer needed. The built in obsolescence of his physical and emotional nature is now apparent. The aggressive, destructive drives of man lack proper reasonable outlets. He is being phased out by technology. Sperm banks and test-tube babies can take over his last function, his only function that has positive effects for the human race."
I have to head off to class (not gender studies) can explain more later.
Something about knowing that there are practicing physicians who find the time to contribute to Star Wars puts a smile on my usually deadpan face:
http://www.starwars.com/news/contributor/lindahansenraj
I also remember their being several doctors who were also a part of the 501st legion (one of whom was Dooku).