It’s hard to run fast with children
gripping your skirt. It is hard to fight with a babe in arms. Children are
dependent, they feel entitled to food and all kinds of stuff plus they whine a
lot. Thinking about this I wonder if the basic human response of fight or
flight may not be as universal as it presented. A woman with a child would
prefer a third option, something other than fight or flight, maybe not to be
placed in the position to start with. Men welcome the fight or flight event,
there lies honor and heroics, the chance to prove something. Women enjoy
watching these heroics; my wife enjoys watching a football contest when she an
emotional attachment to one of the teams. Women prefer to not engage directly
in smash mouth activities. Women avoid fight or flight situations when possible
while men will seek them out. Teenage boys will fight with even a flimsical
excuse, I clearly remember that. Now I watch old men fight each other about
things even they don’t even care about. Fight or flight is a male response, women prefer
leave-now-before-something-happens. Men and women have fundamentally different
out looks and priorities.
This difference is statistically
observable between male/female stock traders and I perceive this in the
powerful female CEOs currently running major corporations. As a group they are
more thoughtful and cautious while still maintaining a lethal capitalism. This
has given corporations of the advanced nations a significant advantage, by
combining the male and female proclivities some institutions have moved to a
new level. In retrospect it is hard to understand the battle from Susan B.
Anthony to Gloria Steinem. Equality should have been apparent not a long hard
struggle. This battle is not finished but the benefits to society are clear and incontestable. Men and women have fundamentally different out looks and priorities
and those societies that are successfully integrating the male-female dichotomy
are stronger societies.
The current list of issues that
women are presenting to our political system seems to me to be equally obvious as
beneficial to our society. Seeing child care or equal pay as a threat lacks any
intellectual basis. Those societies that have already adopted some of these
practices are reaping the benefits while we look like yesterday's story.
As a male I won’t be marching with
you, I’m staying home to watch the football game. As the father of two
daughters and two granddaughters you have my support ladies. Doesn’t that sound
just like a man.
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