If it is true that there are statistically meaningful inborn sex differences, then casting off the stereotypes will be liberating to the statistical outliers who by nature do not conform. And they deserve that liberation, and society should grant all people that – but is it liberation at the expense of denying the reality of the majority?P John Irons
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Is the male position in traditional dating scripts easier or the female position? It depends
Often there’s fights on who has it easier and who has it harder, men or women? But MetalHead on FM pointed out a really good distinction. “It depends with individuals too”. Its a good distinction.
For example, from a shy guy’s perspective, the woman’s position seems infinitely better – he’s annoyed how he’s labeled a creep, a loser and a “non-man” if he’s not out there getting rejected left and right and how’s expected to have cool charm while getting rejected – or otherwise risk being labeled a creep.
For an aggressive, take-charge woman, the male position seems better and she will resent the fact how she gets slut-shamed and deemed needy and desperate if she tries to take charge and pursue men herself.
I also love his feeding analogy – its perfect
it’s better for someone who is hungry to be forcefed and for someone who is obese to be malnourished.
MetalHead @ Is “Confident” The Male Analog To “Thin”? (NoH)
First, I think you need to consider individuals. Meaning, it is not true that the male and female positions in the dating game are equivalent for a given person in all cases. It all depends on the individual personality, a shy person will generally find the female position much better than the male one and an aggressive person who wants to be in control may find the male position better. To use your analogy, it’s better for someone who is hungry to be forcefed and for someone who is obese to be malnourished.
Gender Composition of PhDs
Gender Composition of PhDs (2009) | Sofiastry
The only thing that subverted my expectations was the ‘religious studies’ thing, but other than that, it’s pretty much expected. If you visit the full PDF report you’ll take note that even within fields men will dominate the more technical and challenging areas.
You’ve got what you want, girls. Stop whining: Has feminism made women unhappy?
The survey, The Paradox Of Declining Female Happiness, reports that women of all ages and income are less happy than women of 40 years ago and less happy than today’s men.
Despite sexual and marital liberation, massively increased career opportunities and earning power, educational privileges and the wholesale demolition of the inhibiting conventions that restricted the lives of women in the past, today’s women report themselves as feeling a low sense ‘of life satisfaction and well-being’.
Well, men might be entitled to retort, welcome to the real world, sweethearts.
What you are complaining about is the very same life that you promoted and celebrated when you were swanking around chanting ‘sisters are doing it for themselves’.
One woman commentator perfectly expressed the problem illustrated by this report, explaining: ‘It’s almost as if, in some ways, we got it all and then found out it wasn’t quite exactly what we wanted.’
This is exactly what I have been predicting – against a torrent of vilification and derision from feminists – for more than 20 years.
The fact is, lady, if you do succeed in having it all, the effort and the burden will probably break your back.
Before we sympathise with this sad plight, however, perhaps we should remind ourselves of the multitude of unprecedented benefits, blessings and advantages that have been showered upon the modern women who are now whingeing about the poverty of their ‘life satisfaction’.
They have become the most privileged, the most cosseted and indulged women in the history of humanity. They are the first to live their whole lives without threat of war or plague. They are the first women ever born who could control and regulate their fertility with complete reliability, and they are the first to have the means and the right to choose an abortion if they slipped up or changed their minds about being pregnant.
Motivated by conscience and a desire for justice and equality, it was primarily men who revolutionised the position of women. I can see your jaw dropping at this peculiar idea, but if you don’t believe it, ask yourself these questions: how many women MPs were sitting on the benches of the House Of Commons when, by a majority of two-to-one, Parliament passed the Bill in 1918 which extended the franchise to women? Answer: not one.
Who was responsible for the Abortion Act of 1967 and the Divorce Reform Act of 1969? Men. Who brought into law the Equal Opportunities Act and the Sex Discrimination Act? Men.
Yet women of our time have lived all their lives with an unquestioning belief that they are members of an oppressed class of victims who have had to struggle heroically for liberation against a society cruelly organised by men for the benefit of men (‘Women are the n*****s of the world,’ as that irredeemable twit Yoko One once declared).
The manifest truth of the past 200 years is that men wanted change for women as much as they wanted it for themselves.
In survey after survey, men report that they resent the demands of work and that they wish they could have more time with their growing children. Yet the law continues to discriminate against fathers in the provision of time away from work to care for children.
We don’t even count it as an intolerable injustice and inequality that men are still required to work five years longer than women before they become eligible for a state pension
Men don’t go on about it, but the truth is that things aren’t entirely wonderful for us, either. The difference is that we don’t suppose we’ve got a God-given right to blame women for it.
Boy brain, girl brain: How the sexes act differently
We’ve found real differences in the ways men and women think and behave – but which ones matter? New Scientist puts things in perspective
AS IF bookstore shelves weren’t groaning enough under the weight of books revealing the differences between men and women, Donald Pfaff has recently added another to the pile. Ask why he felt compelled to throw yet another volume into this vast library and he will tell you that he was fed up with reading popular but “science-lite” accounts. Authors who pretend that we are all alike annoy him as much as those who claim that men and women inhabit separate planets. Both are guilty of over-simplification, he fumes, and of treating the brain “like a lump of jello” lacking the diversity we need to run modern societies.
In November last year, Pfaff, a professor of neurobiology from Rockefeller University in New York, was a keynote speaker …