When A Man Is In Pain...

[Maeght]

You lot take life too seriously.

Fancy getting upset at that.

Again, a typical post of someone who makes a point, can't back it up when people dispute it, won't consider they may have been wrong and so try to make light of it and dismiss the other people as taking things too seriously. You'll be saying 'get a life' next!

[OH MY WORLD!]

Hello Rose,
 Some people think that saying there are differences between women and men other than the physical, is sexist, is saying that they are not equal. What absolute BS.

[Maeght]

Hello Rose,
 Some people think that saying there are differences between women and men other than the physical, is sexist, is saying that they are not equal. What absolute BS.

Who is saying that?

[Maeght]

There are clearly differences in behaviour between men and women within modern society. How many of these difference are due to nature and how many due to nurture is a subject of debate and study. There are social and cultural conventions which have led to views of what normal behaviour for men and women is but it should be noted that these have changed through history and continue to change. This is a positive thing in my view as it removes pressures on people to conform to this norm who naturally do not. Recognising that these conventions exist is not the issue but to make cliched gender generalisations and to ignore any evidence which shows those generalisations to be inaccurate is. To then try to trivialise and belittle those posts rather than actually recognising the evidence and even considering that they may be wrong or may have made an inaccurate generalisation just adds to it. It is a growing trend on here as I say and not a pleasant one, but I will leave it at that and say no more.

[ippy]

This Book, "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps", Barbara & Alan Pease, is one of the best fun reads I've had, it isn't sexist although the title can give that impression; there are several female friends and female members of family that have read this book, to a woman they all say that it's not a sexist book against women, it's fun and fact more or less all the way through.

In a good humoured way, I was annoyed at the way there are so many things women are mostly and evidentially better equipped to do than us men; whether you agree with it's conclusions or not, I think the reader will take a revised view of, how I see it as, the mostly good humoured battle of the sexes.

ippy

[ProfessorDavey]

Hello Rose,
 Some people think that saying there are differences between women and men other than the physical, is sexist, is saying that they are not equal. What absolute BS.

Of course there are gender differences that aren't physical. Which is why we talk about gender, rather than sex - there are people who may be physically male or female who consider their gender not to align with the physical anatomy - hence transgender.

But that isn't what we are talking about - the issue raised with Rose was her stereotyping men in a derogatory manner when there was no evidence that her stereotype was actually true, and indeed all the evidence suggests the reverse of her stereotyping to be the actual reality.

[ippy]

Where road accidents are concerned I obviously would rather none of them ever happened, but in my experience I would hand the gold award for most percentage of the brain dead go faster bloody minded road accidents on men and then again I would give the knocking the car next door in the car park and the very largest of nicks and knocks on our car bodies in anything to do with parking,supermarket car parking or any other kind, largely to the female of the species, and there is a fair bit of money spent on having this kind of damage repaired and it seems to me this is massively overlooked.

No I haven't got any researched evidence this is all from my own observations, from life experience.

ippy