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Originally Posted by wilbjammin
I find it hard to believe that you're serious with this one. Courts are hardly the bastions of determining which sex is better at what.
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It's been pointed out that measuring which sex would be a better parent is very difficult. Given the lack of actual evidence to the contrary and the status of a legal ruling, it seems reasonable.
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Originally Posted by wilbjammin
When I was talking about how society's beliefs about things affects policy, you argued in a tangential response that you can't determine if something is true or not based on society's beliefs. Now, you're doing just that. This is one of the reasons that you are getting a lot of responses about your inconsistency - you're being very inconsistent.
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That's my point, noone else can see their inconsistencies. If someone else states that most people believe one thing, then great, it must be so. If I state that most people believe something else, I'm being inconsistent and my argument is flawed. Every statement I make must be backed up, citing sources and such, but someone else can get away with 'most people say so'.
Which is it to be?
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
Do you think that you'd wash dishes? Natural advantage or not...you're ignoring a huge component of the debate, that gender roles are affected by our cultural understanding. There is much that has nothing to do with "natrual" but everything to do with how you were raised, the culture around you, and the values of that culture.
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I wash the dishes, I don't think evolution really took that one into account to be honest.
Yes in the main part gender roles are affected by our history and traditions and the desire of men to beat women into subserviency. Men can cook and women can drive, but each has an inherent advantage over the other when it comes to certain things.