Although I do actually feel that a woman's main role in life is to have babies (I just see that as hugely empowering rather than something pathetic) but I think men like feeling as if they're somehow in control of the process.
In fact, my theory is that the majority of known human history can be explained quite simply as the male gender's desperately jealous attempts to wrest control of the process of the "creation" of life away from the female gender and hog the glory of it for themselves.
The battles of the sexes, in my understanding, isn't really about money or jobs... that's patriarchal misdirection which forces us to think with their mindset and not create our own radically new one. Adoption of a child and loving it even though it doesn't contain your own genes is incredibly radical as a concept in our current society as it demonstrates an implicit equality of humanity that men have fought a lot of wars against. Women appear to be happy to nurture any life - even if it hasn't sprung directly from their body or culture - whereas, if the man has no role in the creation of his "own" child, then he has played no "creator god" role and that seems to be an issue for them. Perhaps this has an evolutionary basis, since a woman knows that she is the mother of her child, whilst a man can never really be 100% positive unless he controls the mother - the means of production - absolutely.
The male mindset (historically) appears to be that whoever controls the process is the one considered closest to being the creator, to being a "god" and it is them who has the ultimate power over the future of our species. I just get this feeling that everything boils down to men trying to understand and control life itself and here we woman are, we just do it. Inside our bodies it just happens! If we are left to choose our own partners and make our own decisions about our bodies, then we control life itself. We are as gods... or rather, goddesses. Stuff "penis envy". ;)
Thank heavens that issues like not having enough money to fund it get in the way a lot of the time.
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Date: 2007-04-10 10:15 am (UTC)Although I do actually feel that a woman's main role in life is to have babies (I just see that as hugely empowering rather than something pathetic) but I think men like feeling as if they're somehow in control of the process.
In fact, my theory is that the majority of known human history can be explained quite simply as the male gender's desperately jealous attempts to wrest control of the process of the "creation" of life away from the female gender and hog the glory of it for themselves.
The battles of the sexes, in my understanding, isn't really about money or jobs... that's patriarchal misdirection which forces us to think with their mindset and not create our own radically new one. Adoption of a child and loving it even though it doesn't contain your own genes is incredibly radical as a concept in our current society as it demonstrates an implicit equality of humanity that men have fought a lot of wars against. Women appear to be happy to nurture any life - even if it hasn't sprung directly from their body or culture - whereas, if the man has no role in the creation of his "own" child, then he has played no "creator god" role and that seems to be an issue for them. Perhaps this has an evolutionary basis, since a woman knows that she is the mother of her child, whilst a man can never really be 100% positive unless he controls the mother - the means of production - absolutely.
The male mindset (historically) appears to be that whoever controls the process is the one considered closest to being the creator, to being a "god" and it is them who has the ultimate power over the future of our species. I just get this feeling that everything boils down to men trying to understand and control life itself and here we woman are, we just do it. Inside our bodies it just happens! If we are left to choose our own partners and make our own decisions about our bodies, then we control life itself. We are as gods... or rather, goddesses. Stuff "penis envy". ;)
Thank heavens that issues like not having enough money to fund it get in the way a lot of the time.