The writer is forgetting, ignoring or is totally ignorant of the fact that most of our gender roles such as showing emotion (typical of women) or not showing it (men), leadership (men) and self sacrifice (women) are conditioned into us when we were young babies and children. In other words, our gender traits are mostly cultural, not biological. Take the social conditioning out of the story of men and women and you would find very little difference between the sexes.
Men have much stronger position socially when they own property and earn more than women. They are now making noise as they don't want to lose this position.
- Carmel Meehan, London
Sums up the Left's worldview nicely - it's all about the feminization of the Marxist class struggle. That's why the "feminists have to stop..." lines we keep seeing in all of these articles miss the point - the perpetrators fo these societal trends are trying to destroy our society and replace it with a Marxist one.
I saw it and just rolled my eyes. The Left will NEVER get it. They are the problem in a nutshell.
It is fascinating how the left operates, on the one hand, they want to say that boys are boys and girls are girls because they have been RAISED that way, and yet, when it comes to homosexuality, they claim those people were BORN that way. The hipocracy is striking!
Carmel is dreaming if she thinks sex differences are all conditioning. My dad was an army air corps drill sergeant for a while and believe me I was not brought up to cry when things went wrong. As an adult (woman), however, I could cry easily and often, without much control over my emotions. With menopause, my propensity to cry disappeared. So I'd say the cause was hormones -- not upbringing.
"the perpetrators fo these societal trends are trying to destroy our society and replace it with a Marxist one."
I thank God every day that it's finally getting it's jsut deserts: the backlash has thankfully begun. I'm behind it all the way.