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| Men And Women Are Not Fundamentally Different |
| It's socialization which creates the differences... The scouting organizations, the magazines, the parents, schools, and churches. Strip away the brainwashing and you are left with two beings who have the same fundamental needs: Safety, nurture, love, companionship. Books like "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" create and perpetuate this division. |
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I largely agree. Obviously there are gross anatomical differences and I’m sure you could use
statistics to highlight differences in the average propensity for this or that behavior, but that
would not really be speaking to the point. Since it is nearly impossible to remove the factor of
socialization empirically, typical gender data is going to be useless. So this debate is going to
mostly be based on peoples gut reaction and anecdotal evidence. My gut reaction and my experience
lead me to believe that any generalization based on gender does not necessarily hold up on an
individual basis. One suggestive though hardly definitive bit of information; here in America, since
clearly defined gender roles started to degrade during WWII there has been a slow but steady shift
towards an equalization of statistical behavior data among men and women. This would at least
suggest that men and women are more similar than most of society would tend to think. |
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08 Jun 2008 00:28
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