Controversial Political Opinions

[JasonBlack]

(03-17-2022, 07:52 AM)David Horn Wrote: All those characteristics you define as 'male' are actually role models some embrace and others not. But if anything has been learned in the past few decades, it's the fact that we're all different -- male and female alike. There are uniquely female roles, childbearing being the most obvious, but uniquely male roes are less so, at least today. Women can be brave, as Marina Ovsyannikova proved when she walked out on Russian TV with a sign protesting an intolerant tyrant. On the other hand, many men and women shrink in the face of a challenge they should meet. That's not a gender issue, though the method of meeting the challenge may be. We men were endowed, by our own testosterone, with superior musculature; sometime that still matters. But we shouldn't assume that we are all equally capable. We aren't.

Women can be brave just like men can be empathetic, but there are more brave men and more empathetic women. The whole "we're not all equally capable" is kind of the point. Our general expectations should reflect this general difference in capability. You can have a general way in which you treat people while still making individual exceptions as they arise. For example, most of my female friends are pretty masculine. Their sense of humor is like a male, their emotional expression is more like a male, what they actually do in practice is more like a male, so I treat them more like how I treat my guy friends. To reiterate the previous point, the main issue I have with modern feminism is that they want all the privileges of being a man, all the privileges of being a woman, and the responsibilities of neither. Doctors, members of the armed forces, construction workers, etc all get a certain package of privileges that I don't, because they're willing to take on jobs that I don't and have competence that I don't. Likewise, men are generally willing to take on tasks that women don't want to or are less able to, and women are generally willing to take on tasks that men don't want to or are less able to. It's only logical we adjust the privileges and responsibilities we expect accordingly.

Quote:Here we'll have to agree on principle but disagree in practice. We should all respect one another. We don't always act that way. Again, that's not a uniquely male role to fill.

you can respect both women and men while being cognizant that women are more likely to appreciate someone else having things under control.