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***Foreword*** This piece is directly related to the previous two articles titled "You're Such a Tool!" and "Rites of Passage - Making Boys into Men". To fully understand the significance of the following concepts, those articles must be taken into account. (While this article can stand alone, it is also the "climax" of a three part series - which is part of
a chapter of
a book. There's much more context to this article than what appears here by itself).
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At first it may seem like an assault against your good senses to think
of adult women as mere children or teenagers. How could they be? They go
through life and mature just like men do, don’t they? Once they are
thirty or forty, don’t they behave as adults just as thirty or forty
year old men do? Actually, there is much evidence to the contrary.
Perhaps men are so keen to believe that women mature the same as them
(throughout their entire lives) because in the early stages of our
lives, females do actually mature faster than males.
”The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower is it
in reaching maturity. Man reaches the maturity of his reasoning and
mental faculties scarcely before he is eight and twenty; woman when she
is eighteen; but hers is a reason of very narrow limitations. This is
why women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what
is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing
for reality, and prefer trifling things to the most important.” --
Arthur Schopenhauer, On Women (1851)
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The reason why females mature faster than men is not some particular
triumph for them, despite how women seem to enjoy throwing this little
tidbit of information around. As I described in my piece
"You're Such a Tool",
what it really has to do with is women being the biological bearers and
caretakers of children. They mature faster than males because once they
become fertile after puberty, they must also have the mental capacity
to care for the children they might bear. Nowhere in nature is there a
female organism that is capable of giving birth to offspring which is
not also developed enough yet to care for the offspring. This not only
manifests itself in hips capable of giving birth and breasts able to
produce milk, but also in a mental maturation that enables them to
provide basic childcare. You will notice as well, even in our present
society, it is when girls reach around the age of twelve that they begin
taking up babysitting and it is around puberty when adults begin
entrusting young girls to care for infants alone. This merely coincides
with female biology, as it is also at that age when girls become
physically capable of bearing children, and their mental maturity
matches their biological maturity.
The difference between men and women in maturity, however, is that while females mature earlier in life, they also
stop
maturing at around the age of eighteen, as Schopenhauer aptly observes.
And while men don’t catch up to women’s maturity until they reach
around age twenty-eight, after that
the men keep maturing - often throughout their entire lives. William James describes the same process of maturation in
Principles of Psychology, where he states:
"We observe an identical difference between men as a whole and women as a
whole. A young woman of twenty reacts with intuitive promptitude and
security in all the usual circumstances in which she may be placed. Her
likes and dislikes are formed; her opinions, to a great extent, the
same that they will be through life. Her character is, in fact,
finished in its essentials. How inferior to her is a boy of twenty in
all these respects! His character is still gelatinous, uncertain what
shape to assume, "trying it on" in every direction. Feeling his power,
yet ignorant of the manner in which he shall express it, he is, when
compared with his sister, a being of no definite contour. But this
absence of prompt tendency in his brain to set into particular modes is
the very condition which insures that it shall ultimately become so much
more efficient than the woman's. The very lack of preappointed trains
of thought is the ground on which general principles and heads of
classification grow up; and the masculine brain deals with new and
complex matter indirectly by means of these, in a manner which the
feminine method of direct intuition, admirably and rapidly as it
performs within its limits, can vainly hope to cope with." -- William James, Principles of Psychology
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It becomes like comparing three-month fermented wine served in a box of
Chateau Cardboard to single malt scotch aged for decades in an oak cask. As such, women do mature faster than males but stop maturing at around
the mentality of an eighteen year old (or also, I suppose, to the
maturity of a 28 year old man), leaving the woman as literally, the most
responsible teenager in the house.
It is interesting to note as well
how many men claim that it is at around age 27 or 28 that they begin to
“figure things out” in regard to women, or at least much more so than
they did earlier in life.
”Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our
early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are
childish, and foolish, and shortsighted – in a word, are big children
all their lives, something intermediate between the child and the man,
who is a man in the strictest sense of the word. Consider how a young
girl will toy day after day with a child, dance with it and sing to it;
and then consider what a man, with the very best of intentions, could do
in her place.” --
Arthur Schopenhauer, On Women (1851)
The reason why women stop maturing at around the age of eighteen also
has to do with their biological destiny as child-bearers and caretakers
of children. As Schopenhauer notes, women can toy and coo with a child
all day long and seemingly enjoy themselves, while what could a man do
in their place? Women, as they are wont to brag to us, are also more
“emotionally tuned-in” than men are. Women’s emotional proclivities are
directly related to her childrearing duties which biology has assigned
to her. Babies, for example, communicate
solely through emotion
and even as children grow into toddlers and then children that
communicate with words and language, a lot of their communication is
still through emotion, and so women are at an intermediate stage of
development between that of a child and an adult man, or in other words,
they are teenagers.
Furthermore, in regard to women’s emotional state, it ought to be noted that one cannot be emotional
and
rational at the same time, so it is not that females are both more
emotionally in-tune while remaining rationally above it all. Just the
opposite is true.
The more you “emote,” the less you “think.” Take someone suffering from road-rage, for example. The emotions of anger so cloud the driver’s brain that he can even
unthinkingly
commit acts of violence, only to deeply regret it later when his
emotions have subsided. As women are generally in a much more emotional
state of mind than men, so do they not use reason and rationality to
guide themselves as much as men do.
***NOTE: In regard to these concepts, there's an addition to this article at the bottom of this page.***
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What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Ours
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What husband doesn’t come to understand this is the true nature of
marriage after a time? But ultimately, is this not merely the same
attitude that teenagers take within the family?
Think about how a teenager refers to the family sedan, which the parents paid for, as
our car. But the i-pod which he purchased with money he earned part-time at McDonald's is
his
i-pod. Is not the teenager’s/child’s default that his parent’s
possessions are “ours” while those possessions he purchased with money
he earned himself are “his,” and his alone? This directly mimics even my
own parent’s marriage, where my father worked his entire lifetime to
pay the bills for the family and put a roof over our heads, but when the
kids were off to school and my mom took up working, the money she
earned doing so was “her money.” It did not go into the family pot as my
father’s income did, but became her own “special money” in almost the
same way that a child’s allowance or earnings are “his money.”
(Right Now I Feel Like)...
Perhaps you have heard the old saying, “It’s a woman’s prerogative
to change her mind…” This is something we usually write off as a cute quirk of
female behaviour (
even though it often causes untold damage to others), but
think for a moment how this resembles the behaviour of children & teenagers.
Ask a child what they want to be when they grow up and they will tell you “a
fireman,” then ask them a week later and they will say “an astronaut.” Young
people will do this right through high-school and on into university where they
almost assuredly will change their major at least once, not to mention that
after getting their degree, the odds are there will be more changes in their
plans once again.
If I were a parent who had a teenager that told me they
wanted to be a doctor in the future, I would do well to insert the phrase “Right
now I feel like (I want to be a doctor),” in front of every choice the teenager
has claimed they made. Certainly, I wouldn’t 100% take them at their word and
start depleting my resources in an attempt to help them become a doctor,
because in a month or two, the teen will tell me they no longer want to be a
doctor but have decided on the career path of Famous Rock Star instead.
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One of the sad facts of entering adulthood is that you are
forced to make choices which you must stick to in order to be successful in
your ventures. The person who decides early to stick to a career as an
auto-mechanic will likely be much more successful in life than his peer who
spends age 18 to 24 pursuing a career as psychologist, then quits and spends
another 6 years attempting a career as an electrician, only to quit again to
gain qualification as an accountant. Part of “adulthood” is about making
choices that you stick to for the long term, so that those ventures have enough
time to bear fruit. Those who change their minds too often rarely harvest the
fruits of their labour. In other words,
making a choice to go in one direction often closes the door to other choices. We allow children the latitude to
change their minds as they grow-up, but after a time we start to insist they
make a choice and stick to it.
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Women as well change their minds like teenagers do. Sure,
she might decide that (right now she feels like) she wants to be a doctor, but
as evidence has shown in the medical profession, most women who train to be
doctors spend less than a decade working full-time in said profession before
quitting and deciding that (right now she feels like) she wants to be a mother.
Afterwards, most of these women decide that (right now she feels like) she only
wants to work as a part-time doctor. Of course, as time goes on, she has less
and less experience than the male doctor who never “took a break” to explore
other
choices life had to offer and
he quickly outpaces her in that field,
even without the Patriarchy conspiring behind the scenes to hold her back.
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When a woman tells you she will love you forever, insert the
phrase (Right now I feel like) before it, so you get the proper translation
into
Womanese:
“(Right now I feel like) I will love you forever. All evidence
shows that this should include vows made at the altar as well, since the
vast majority of divorces are initiated by women rather than men.
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Q: “Do you take this man as your lawful wedded husband, to
have and to hold until death do you part?”
A: “(Right now I feel like) I do!”
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Sure women stick to their choices better than children do,
but they don’t do it as well as men do either. In other words, women’s
behaviour exists somewhere in between the child and the man… kinda like a
teenager.
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Women’s Fitness-Tests are Similar to the Boundaries Which Children Seek
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Anyone who has raised children knows that children seek boundaries and
are happiest when they find such boundaries exist and understand there
are consequences when they cross them. A child who does not have
boundaries set by his parents will in the short term get his way, but
will ultimately come to resent everything around him and become
miserable.
Women are not much different. They will instinctively
fitness-test
a man with all kinds of irrational and basically abusive behaviour, to
test the steel content of his balls by his ability to pass such tests
and not put up with her crap. If the man passes her tests, she calms
down and is content to live within the boundaries of behaviour which he
sets for her. Once she knows there are boundaries and her man is willing
to enforce them, she knows that her man is a capable provider and
protector and she can relax and feel confident following his lead.
The behaviour of children seeking boundaries set for them by their
parents and the fitness-testing behaviour of women with their lovers is
remarkably similar.
(Related Study Illustrating that
Women Crave Boundaries)
Men Love Women, Women Love Children, and Children Love Puppies
There is an “order” to how love works and the order works only in one
direction. You can see hints to this in the Bible, where husbands are
commanded to love their wives while wives are commanded to “honour”
their husbands in return. Children as well are commanded to honour their
parents. Love is a hierarchal beast that descends downward. The only
way it works in reverse is via honour and respect, because the
reciprocal “love” is never equal.
A child will never love its parents in the same fashion that parents
will love their child. You will readily see parents willing to sacrifice
for their children – sometimes with their very lives – but rarely will
you see the same in reverse. In fact, even in society as a whole, we
consider it to be “the right thing” when a father or a mother sacrifices
their life in order to save the life of their child. The whole of
raising children to adulthood involves enormous sacrifice on the part of
the parents in the form of time, frustration, freely giving resources,
the denial of the parent’s dreams, and so forth. It is never returned to
the parents on an equal basis, not even when the child reaches
adulthood, for by that time the child will likely have children of his
own to whom he bestows most of his love upon. Although having children
is a one-way-street of parents sacrificing for the betterment of their
child, they are still instinctively compelled to do so even though,
rationally speaking, it is not in the best interests of the parents.
What parents can expect in return is that their children
honour
them and respect them for their sacrifices – but their love will never
equal that which their parents have for them. It is just not part of the
natural order of life.
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In the same way, a woman’s love for a man will never be equal to a man’s
love for a woman. The natural order and a woman’s hypergamous nature
dictate that
the man must be on a “higher level” than the woman.
A man can love a woman just as a woman can love a child, but the
reciprocal love is returned only in the form of honour and respect. Just
as a child instinctively expects its parents to take care of them, so
does a woman instinctively expect her man to take care of her. It is a
one-way street. A woman will never be able to equally return a man’s
love for her. At best, she can honour and respect him for what he does
for her.
In fact, in the form of romantic love, you will find that women are not
so much in love with the man as an individual person, but rather they
are in love with
the relationship. The man is merely a
role-player and is easily replaced by another taking on the role. If any
man expects to be an “equal partner” with his wife, he will soon find
his woman disrespecting him and seeking out a man who is decidedly
not her equal to lead her.
They are the sexus sequior, the second sex in every respect,
therefore their weaknesses should be spared, but to treat women with
extreme reverence is ridiculous, and lowers us in their own eyes. When
nature divided the human race into two parts, she did not cut it exactly
through the middle! The difference between the positive and negative
poles, according to polarity, is not merely qualitative but also
quantitative. And it was in this light that the ancients and people of
the East regarded woman; they recognised her true position better than
we, with our old French ideas of gallantry and absurd veneration, that
highest product of Christian-Teutonic stupidity. These ideas have only
served to make them arrogant and imperious, to such an extent as to
remind one at times of the holy apes in Benares, who, in the
consciousness of their holiness and inviolability, think they can do
anything and everything they please. --
Arthur Schopenhauer, On Women (1851)
You cannot expect a woman to be your true confidant, your soul-mate, and
your respite to lean upon during the stormy times in life.
That is your role for her benefit.
It does not work in reverse, for as soon as you believe it can work
that way, she will lose confidence in your ability to lead her and begin
to resent you. She will go about illustrating her resentment by making
your life as miserable as she possibly can.
This may be one of the hardest lessons for a man to learn in life
because it turns the whole notion of modern love as an equal
give-and-take relationship upon its ear. The implications can be rather
depressing, as it means that on a certain level a man will always be
alone. A parent who expects their child to also be their equal friend to
lean upon for support, will also find himself sorely disappointed with
the results. The child instinctively expects the parents to be superior
and to cater to his needs. Expecting the reverse will only result in a
resentful child and a heartbroken parent. The same order must be
maintained between a man and a woman, lest she become resentful and seek
out a man who actually
will lead her.
The Terrible Twos
”If one looks around at today's culture and takes note of all the
destructive effects of the female attitude of entitlement, then went on
to devise social controls which would prevent such destructive effects
in the future, I think you would end up with social values very much
like the ones currently labeled "patriarchal."
Rather than viewing feminism as "conditioning" women to behave in
completely self-centered ways, I see it more as a case of feminism
regarding the socialization process which countered the natural tendency
of all organisms toward selfishness - as "oppression."
Every parent who has had daily involvement in raising a child is
familiar with the stage called "the terrible twos." This is the stage
during which the naturally selfish infant is forced to come to terms
with the fact that their desires will not always be met and their will won't always prevail. I have no doubt that if the child were able to
express what it knows in its "special infantile way of knowing", that it
would consider the imposition of external values on it to be
"oppression."
The vast majority of women I have met have seemed to be stuck
emotionally at about age two. Any frustration of their desires would
result in a tantrum. In many cases these were more subtle than throwing
herself on the floor and thrashing around, but it was a tantrum
nonetheless. So, rather than saying that feminism "conditioned" women to
behave in an immature, selfish, and totally self-centered fashion, I
would describe it as feminism destroying the social value system and the
process of conditioning women out of their infantile and narcissistic
world view.” --
The Wisdom of Zenpriest
Your Bratty Little Sister
”... Women, then, are only children of a larger growth; … A man of
sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them,
as he does with a sprightly forward child; but he neither consults them
about, nor trusts them with serious matters; though he often makes them
believe that he does both; which is the thing in the world they are
most proud of; for they love mightily to be dabbling in business (which
by the way they always spoil); and being justly distrustful that men in
general look upon them in a trifling light, they almost adore that man
who talks more seriously to them, and who seems to consult and trust
them; I say, who seems; for weak men really do, but wise ones only seem to do it. ..."
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Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His Son (1748)
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In the sense of seduction, a man is well advised to treat a woman as if she were his
bratty little sister:
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”…The more you patronizingly treat women like bratty kid sisters, the
more their vaj takes over their critical thinking skills. It all
harkens back to the one fundamental principle guiding male-female
relations: Chicks love submitting to powerful men. And what is a bigger
demonstration of male sexual power than believing that a woman is so far
beneath you that she is the equivalent of a child, hardly deserving of a
serious answer or an emotional investment?
So what does “everything she does is cute” mean in practice? It means
not getting riled up when she tests you. It means not explaining
yourself when she stamps her wee feet and wags a finger at you. It means
never acting apologetic when she’s upset with some mysterious
infraction you’ve committed. Keep in mind that when a woman gets upset,
at least half the time she’s not really upset with whatever misdemeanor
she’s accusing you of; she’s just upset that your behavior caused a
temporary reversal of gina tingle induction.
The “everything she does is cute” game tactic is defined more
precisely as an inner game refinement. When you start thinking of women
as adorable brats who know not what they do, you start treating them in
ways consistent with your beliefs. With enough reprogramming in the
right direction (i.e. kicking the supports out from under her pedestal),
soon the words coming out of your mouth will be effortless verbal
expressions of what you actually feel. And therein lies the secret to
being a natural — naturals truly believe the charmingly jerkoff things
they say to women.” --
Chateau Heartiste
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(Also see
"Lesson Thirteen: Charm is Treating Women Like Little Girls" -- The Book of Pook)
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Conclusion
Despite what most relationship “experts” try to tell you, the key to a
successful relationship is not about open, honest communication.
It is true, there must be a form of “mutual respect,” but the respect
cannot be equal in all ways. A parent can respect a child and respect
the child’s needs, but for a parent to treat the child as an equal would
be a grave mistake. In a similar way, a man can respect a woman, but if
he deems to treat her as his equal, she will soon come to resent him
and leave to seek a man who actually portrays himself as superior – as a
leader – to her. She seeks this instinctively.
She is like water seeking a strong man to act as the container which will shape her "truths."
In the realm of seduction, a woman also seeks out a man who is able to
behave in a superior fashion to her, so even if you are not yet
convinced that women are as mere children but only of a larger growth,
you would be well advised to
treat her as one if only from the standpoint of keeping her romantically interested in you.
When a man marries a woman, he doubles his duties while halving his
rights. This was true even in the days of Marriage 1.0. It is a large
responsibility involving much effort to take on a wife, just as it is
for one to take on raising children. You cannot expect children, or
women, to fulfill your needs for emotional intimacy nor to be “someone
to lean on” during times of strife. Just the opposite, for that is
your duty as a parent and also as a husband.
Most of our modern laws, and nearly all of the “experts” in the social
sciences, have done everything they possibly can to undermine a man’s
ability to properly “husband” his wife. The current state of affairs
completely upsets the natural hierarchy between man and woman. In the
same way that it would be nearly impossible for parents to properly
raise children if the government passed a plethora of laws
deconstructing parent’s natural roles and restricting them from setting
boundaries for children, so it is increasingly difficult for a man to
properly fulfill his leadership role
that women instinctively seek and need.
When children have legal authority over their parents, chaos will
ensue, just as in Marriage 2.0 where women hold supremacy over the
husbands, the practice of matrimony will only harm and bring resentment
to all parties involved, making one ill-advised to seek such an
arrangement in life.
“Feminism starts out being very simple. It starts out being the
instinct of a little child who says ‘it’s not fair’ and ‘you are not the
boss of me,’ and it ends up being a worldview that questions hierarchy
altogether.” --
Gloria Steinem, in the two hour HBO special on the life of Gloria Steinem entitled,
"Gloria: In Her Own Words."
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***An addition to this article*** I kind of get a kick watching this article get linked to on Reddit. It causes quite a bit of controversy and has a
lot of people pretty angry,
especially women. Some of their arguments are pretty silly though. The most glaring one is people calling what Schopenhauer says as "
science from the 1850's." Umm, Schopenhauer is a
philosopher,
not a scientist.
Learn the difference.
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Also, there is one ridiculous person in there
(who goes to every reddit around to repeatedly complain about this
article - for over a year now!) who continually points out that I linked to
Angry Harry,
"who is just another blogger like me," and points out that AH's
"source" for "the more you emote, the less you think" is the Daily Mail.
She does not point out, however, that the Daily Mail's article she is
referring to is cited by "peer reviewed research," done by a feminist,
no less, and Angry Harry merely read the research and translated what
she said. Furthermore, Angry Harry has
multiple degrees, a Ph D. in Psychology and the others I believe are related to childhood education - making him
extremely qualified to critique the research and comment on what it means. Angry Harry
often has written about
how the school system has been rejigged
to favour girls over boys, and it is his area of expertise to note
the different brain functions of the sexes.
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Further,
you will quickly see how angry women get about this discussion, but not
men - except for the mangina's and white knights trying curry favour
and approval from anonymous females on the internet with whom they have
absolutely no chance of getting sex from - yet they still feel compelled
to grovel like servile worms in front of them. My goodness, I half
expect that if women gave those men a dull, rusty pocketknife, they
would castrate themselves to gain the ladies' approval. But, to note, I
have not yet seen one single man get angry
that this
article blatantly suggests men are more immature than women
from pretty much the age of 12 to 28. (It also says males are valued less than females in society). I mean, no teenage boy nor man in
his twenties takes
any offense whatsoever to the suggestion that
they are not as mature as their female peers, yet women and their
enablers are having virtual heart-attacks over the suggestion that men
may have some kind of advantage over females - somewhere.
“Men are not troubled
to hear a man dispraised, because they know, though he be naught, there's worth
in others; but women are mightily troubled to hear any of them spoken against,
as if the sex itself were guilty of some unworthiness.” – John Seldon
(1584-1654)
And, to note,
it is virtually accepted scientifically that girls do, indeed, mature faster than boys, both physically and mentally. (Which already
proves the male and female brain are
not the same).
Physically, for example, in puberty girls mature faster than boys in
such things as height. But as we all know, while boys start their growth
spurt later than girls, boys grow to be significantly taller than
girls. Furthermore, males also do not fully fill-out muscularly until
they reach their late twenties. However, an 18 year old female is pretty
much at her peak of physical development at that age, and by her late
twenties is beginning to decline.
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As such, those who
are angry at this article are, on the one hand, acknowledging the
superiority of women (they mature faster than boys) but then complaining
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screeching like children actually - that there is some advantage which males will gain later in life. In other words, they are trying to show the
superiority of the female brain,
not its equality.
If a female brain matures faster than a male's, and also, ends up
having no disadvantages but only (at the minimum) equality with the male
brain thereafter, then it is quite obvious that they are claiming the
female brain is
superior to the male brain, because if it matures faster, and is also in every way just as capable, then it is superior because it only
has advantages, but not corresponding disadvantages. This reminds me of a verse from Angry Harry's marvelous poem,
If I Only Had a V:
If I only had a V
I would use it expertly
To generate equality
That somehow always favours me
Boy, I wonder how loud the childish squealing would get if I pointed out
other philosophers and writers from the past
who argued things such as women's height being between that of a child
and a man, or that their facial features and skin are intermediate
between a child's and a man's...
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As someone who grew
up through the brunt of feminism's sickness in the 1970's, 80's and
90's, I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have heard of
the superiority
of the female brain's multi-tasking abilities. "Nyah nyah nyah nyah
nyah," the females taunted, from teenagers to old women to fat orca's
with TV talk shows. (They are still doing it today in their "
A Woman's Nation" and "
End of Men" articles). Never once has it been acceptable to
point out that men's linear thinking brain is the one that is capable
of intense and deep concentration, precisely because it
does not
multi-task, and thus why virtually all of the world's inventions with
more than two moving parts have come from the hands of men, plus the
majority of great musicians, artists, philosophers and so on. Women's
multi-tasking brains are like the phrase "a jack of all trades, but master
of none." It helps them do other tasks while also tending to children.
(Most women spent the majority of their entire adult lives either
pregnant or caring for their children until very recently in human
history). For every advantage there is a disadvantage. For every cloud,
there is a silver lining. A Ferrari would be a scream for Sunday afternoon drives, but when Monday morning comes around and you need to
Shut Up and Shovel the Fuckin' Gravel, you'd probably rather have an old pick-up truck.
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The Hard-Wired Difference Between Male and Female Brains Could Explain Why Men Are Better At Map Reading - Researchers found that many of the connections in a typical male
brain run between the front and the back of the same side of the brain,
whereas in women the connections are more likely to run from side to
side between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
This
difference in the way the nerve connections in the brain are “hardwired”
occurs during adolescence when many of the secondary sexual
characteristics such as facial hair in men and breasts in women develop
under the influence of sex hormones, the study found. The
researchers believe the physical differences between the two sexes in
the way the brain is hardwired could play an important role in
understanding why men are in general better at spatial tasks involving
muscle control while women are better at verbal tasks involving memory
and intuition.
... Because the female connections link the left hemisphere, which is
associated with logical thinking, with the right, which is linked with
intuition, this could help to explain why women tend to do better than
men at intuitive tasks, she added. “
Intuition is thinking without
thinking. It's what people call gut feelings.
Women tend to be better
than men at these kinds of skill which are linked with being good
mothers,” Professor Verma said.
(Note that male brains run front to back,
thus not crossing logic with emotion as with women).
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Further reading:
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Sexual Psychology: Puberty to 40 - Eye of the Mind
Neoteny - the U of Wikipedia
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And then Eve’s female rationalizing hamster wheel starts churning, mired in Relative Truth.
Of all of the things that were in the world during the Garden, the only
thing not directly from God… is Eve. She was created from Adam, who
was created in God’s image. Adam is a copy of God, and Eve is a copy of
Adam… Adam is “one step closer” to God/Absolute Truth than Eve is.
Of all of the things that were in the world during the Garden, the only
thing not directly from God… is Eve. She was created from Adam, who
was created in God’s image. Adam is a copy of God, and Eve is a copy of
Adam… Adam is “one step closer” to God/Absolute Truth than Eve is.
The course of a river and a woman’s mind both wander. Water is
malleable, it turns here and there when rocks and mountains block its
path. Women are like this. They are inconstant as water. Although they
know what is right, when they run into the strong will of a man, they
are checked and turn in bad directions. The right fades like a line
drawn on the water. Women’s nature is unsteady: though they see what
they should be, they soon become what they should not be. Buddhahood is
founded on integrity. Therefore, women, who are easily swayed, cannot
become Buddhas. Women have the “five obstacles” (inability to become
anything great) and the “three followings” (follows first the father, then the husband, then the son).
Thus in one sutra it is written: “Even should the eyes of all the
buddhas of the three worlds fall to the earth, women cannot become
Buddha.” Another text says: “Even if you can capture the clear wind, you
can never capture the mind of a woman.” -- Buddha - from Selected Writings of Nichiren
For example, I’ve known one woman for many years now. When I first met
her, it was through snowmobiling. I was an avid snowmobiler and so was
her boyfriend. She was really into snowmobiling – just loved it… until after four years, she broke up with her boyfriend. She never went sledding again.
The next guy she was with though, was really into drag-racing.
She ended up marrying that guy, and really got into drag-racing. In
fact, she ended up becoming the President of the Drag Racing
Association of the town she lived in… until she divorced the guy. Now
she couldn’t care less about drag-racing.
