Posted on 08/29/2012 11:23:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
MAMMALS are named after their defining characteristic, the glands capable of sustaining a life for years after birth — glands that are functional only in the female. And yet while the term “mammal” is based on an objective analysis of shared traits, the genus name for human beings, Homo, reflects an 18th-century masculine bias in science.
That bias, however, is becoming harder to sustain, as men become less relevant to both reproduction and parenting. Women aren’t just becoming men’s equals. It’s increasingly clear that “mankind” itself is a gross misnomer: an uninterrupted, intimate and essential maternal connection defines our species.
The central behaviors of mammals revolve around how we bear and raise our young, and humans are the parenting champions of the class. In the United States, for nearly 20 percent of our life span we are considered the legal responsibility of our parents.
With expanding reproductive choices, we can expect to see more women choose to reproduce without men entirely. Fortunately, the data for children raised by only females is encouraging. As the Princeton sociologist Sara S. McLanahan has shown, poverty is what hurts children, not the number or gender of parents.
That’s good, since women are both necessary and sufficient for reproduction, and men are neither. From the production of the first cell (egg) to the development of the fetus and the birth and breast-feeding of the child, fathers can be absent. They can be at work, at home, in prison or at war, living or dead.
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I think he wants the women to leave the men alone. More for him, IMO. Where the hell do they come up with idiots like him?
Statistically, kids raised by single mothers are at enormous risks..
They are meant to be raised as a FAMILY
In CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy, the evil inhabitants of the far side of the moon no longer have sex with each other. Each of the married people has sex with a robot, or something like a robot, and their children are put together in something very like in vitro.
IOW, we’re very nearly there.
Thanks, I don’t care how they try to diminish it. Children are better off with a man AND a woman as parents.
The majority of veterinary school grads have been women for several decades now.
Write back when the majority of physicists, mathematicians and electrical engineers are women.
No affirmative action. It's a changing field. Family farms are going away and not as many men vet's needed to work on farm animals and men,generally, are not enthuised about treating cats and dogs as a career as much as women.
And it is going the other way for men in other areas. Males in nursing programs is growing each year and pushing out women. My gf works at a hospital with a nursing program. 15 years ago maybe 5% of the class was male now it's 35-40% (great money btw for male nurses and they are in huge demand)
How many women get degrees in Math, Comp Sci, Engineering, or Physics?
In my experience: very few, comparatively. {In my opinion this is because women generally think differently than men, and the difference is one that manifests itself here: the subjects here lend themselves to the male mode of thought far more than female. [Yes, I'm using generalities.]}
Back a hundred years the same was true about the Lawyer profession; now not so much. I think one of the defining characteristics of the Hard Sciences that Law had is that of Logic. Law has lost its dependence on logic: for example the NM State Constitution specifically prohibits law abridging the right of the citizen to carry for security and defense [Art II, Sec 6] as well as prohibiting counties & municipalities from regulating "in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms"; however the State, County, and City courts I'm familiar with all prohibit firearms saying "violators will be prosecuted [by law]" -- All my efforts to bring this Constitutional issue up are deflected with excuses. {This is an issue because people not accused of any crime may be compelled to appear in court: jurors and witnesses.}
Now; gut check: what was your reaction to the last part of the previous paragraph? Was it a "yeah, that doesn't fit" OR "What!? you cant take guns int courthouses!!"?
We’re talking natural selection here, not genetic engineering, or invitro fertilization, or even nongenetic preferential selection. Anomolies tend to either adapt or disappear in a small timeframe. Until I see the first human asexually reproduce, it isn’t going to happen with the DNA we have.
LLS
It’s conveniently overlooked that males (not to be TOO specific) are responsible for almost all of the inventions, discoveries, exploration, etc in history which have contributed to the well-being and knowledge of mankind. If we took all of their accomplishments out of history, the world would be a very different place, and not for the better.
Women in these fields are growing..
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/feb/21/edu-women-overtake-men-in-earning-degrees-at-all/
"Twenty to 30 years ago, biology was mainly male," said Andresse St. Rose, senior researcher for the American Association of University Women. "Today women earn the majority of bachelor's and master's and about half of the [doctoral] degrees in biology."
The biggest jump has been in the percentage of chemists, which climbed from 8 percent to 32 percent during the same period, data show.
About 20 years ago, when George Graham was an engineering student, there was maybe one woman in his classes, he said. Now, women make up to 30 or 40 percent of some of the engineering classes the mechanical engineer teaches as director of the Wacker Institute at Chattanooga State Community College.
women need men as men need women, it really is that simple for even for some of the women NAIZ’s and homostapo.
Hopefully the wmen NAZIS and the homostapo stay as they are becuase they can;t reproduce but sadly they do go shopping for a child and the play families, bless em.
ARF
Of course because women did not have the opportunity(they were expected to stay at home) and they as a rule were not educated beyond HS.
See my post #50.
Everything is changing.. and women are starting to gain in developing technological inventions.
Agree with both of you. I love and respect MEN-—which is something these prancing, preening, metrosexual, nail-polishing, self-hating leftwing geldings are not.
LLS
Sexist/racist! /s
got that right.
The amount of fairy boys today is frightening, boys raised by mothers who want to give their little boy a band aid and ice over the slighest boo boo.
My oldst does boxing and my youngest son plays soccer and trust me on this. The amont of women who treat their sons like girls is all over.
Go to a college today and most young men are not even men but like little prissy pompous girls
Hopefully when my daughter gets older there will still be a few manly guys around who ae not afriad of getting dirty, doing hard dirty work , work around the house etc
that’s normal, most vets I;ve seen are women.
We bought a place out in the Black Hills, which will be my husbands’ retirement home. I am younger, so it’s not my retirement home yet. But any way, he spent this last weekend clearing out trees and brush. I love seeing him all sweaty. Maybe I am crazy?
Who would they blame for their world not being perfect?
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