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Tavane -> RE: Experiences of female superiority in real life.. (2/20/2009 4:47:19 PM)
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I note that Barbara is a female, and don't know what "coping with disease" means., not to menion "coping with the enviornment". This means nothing to me. It could mean that the group she studied missed less work than men because of calling claiming to be sick, or that with certain specified diseases, they recovered a day earlier, or mentally "coped" with certain ones, as the writer defines "coping". . If you are going to make a point, then make the point, and say what you are claiming. "Coping with the environment" is even worse. The physical enviornment? The work enviornment? The flower garden? What kond of coping? Physical? Mental? Emtional? How did she define and measure coping? What were her samples, and how were they randomly selected? What kind of control group did she have? Did she "prove what she set out to prove", or did she set out to prove males were superior, and found the opposite. I doubt the latter.
I can say males are physically superior. They are bigger, stronger, faster. However, are they superior at cursive, or sewing, or typing? What is "physical"? What is "superior?
"They" is a gross generalization, in any event. Many females are bigger, stronger, and faster than many males, and I'm confident that Barbara found that many males "coped with disease and the environment" better than many females, whatever she means.
I find this while argument irrelevant. People vary infinitely, whatever gross characteristics one gender might have which are "different" thatn the other gender, generally. We can choose to live in a relationship where the female is "superior" in that relationship, or "supreme" in the context of the relationship. That's the only reality which is relevant to relationships here.
I can see people studying gender differences for the purpose of which drug or other treatment to use for a particular health problem, if the science is good, and for whatever reason drug x works better for females, and drug Y works better for males.
However, the main and primary purpose of researching gender differences is for pure knowledge and entertainment. It's fun to know some "general" differences, if for no other reason than to have fun with the battle of the sexes in irrelevant but fun conversations. Pulling out some off the wall statistic can generate lots of laughter; and I enjoy reading about gender differences, particularly since I'm a TG, and also have always been the size of a slender female, and look more like a female, and test as a female on a gender test such as on Spark.com. We are all "degrees" of "masculine" and "feminine", physically and mentally and emotionally. I have no reason to believe I'm not 100% genetic male, but physically and emotionally I've always been feminine, to some degree.
We all vary infinitely, and clearly we have intelligence which is virtually identical, and the ability to perform most tasks with the same degree of skill. Nearly all professions don't require that much of your intelligence, in any event. The idea of attempting to establish that one gender is "superior" to another one is frankly silly.
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