Wow...

Posted by munineye on 01-02-2008 in Battle of the Sexes

This is really an awful discussion.

The fact that people can actively choose a particular sex and say, "That one's better" just astounds me.
It's like saying "Black people are better at this, but white people rock so much harder..."

Do you hear yourselves?

Here's a quick run-down of what each sex does within a HUGE and gross (in both meanings of the term) generalization:

Man- hunts Woman- gathers
Man- protects Woman- nutures
Man- hurts Woman- heals
etc, etc

These are the basic archetypes we think of when we think of gender. Because really, we're talking battle of the genders, not sexes. Sex is the physical capabilities and "equipment" we are born with. In that instance, women have definitely gotten the short end of the stick, as it were.
But gender deals with archetypes and fluctuating cultural opinions of each gender. Watch some prime-time television. You'll see that most men are "pigs", and most women are nags. These are societal norms and we accept and love them for it.

Gender itself is completely a fiction. Animals don't have a concept of gender, therefore they don't have gender confusion like so many humans do. With animals, it's down to sex. Females procreate, males spread their seed.
That is the function of the sexes. They're each equipped to handle different circumstances as the occasion arises. Men could not have babies. Their spines are not build for the load bearing that happens when carrying that amount of weight. Their hips are not built for passing the fetus anywhere, even if they had a hole for it. And they have no basic, built-in means for nourishing the newborn.

Women cannot create life on their own.

They can do just about everything else, though.