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Originally posted by ARTelevision
of course, it's all about testosterone.
that's the problem, as I see it.
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To a point...the main problem is females in history haven't been a part of running the world like they are slowly moving towards now. Women are nature's "check and balance" for testosterone. If men weren't the agressors and been fueled by testosterone, we wouldn't have the world as it is today. For all that is bad with the world there is still plenty good. I honestly do not think women would have had the "balls" so to speak to create the modern world as we have it. I hope that isn't taken as sexist or derogatory becuase it isn't meant to be. I think it took ruthlessness and agression that is naturally provided by testosterone. So I think testoserone's effects on the male animal are instrumental in the building of our world but the world is incomplete without the balancing influence of the female. You need both, you really do. Males just are capable of running the world on their own...you've seen how that works out. But the world does need the agressive conquering nature of the male to further our "progress". As Camille Paglia said,
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If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.
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You need both; the agressive, conquering , testoserone-fueled male nature, coupled with the softer more peaceful female nature to make a perfect balance. The scary part of our society is many women, in an attempt to compete in the "man's" world are becoming more like men in their conpetitiveness and ruthlessness.
I'm not saying it's wrong for women to compete at all. I just think women abandon their role in the scheme of things to be something they aren't...a man. Again it's not wrong for women to have anything a man does, or to be anything a man can be in the world. But to suppress their more feminine aspects in order to do so is wrong IMO. And of course not all women are soft and feminine, but the majority still are and it's what has mostly kept us from destroying ourselves long long ago. The world needs a feminine influence in power and in general society as a catalyst for the male nature.