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In reply to the discussion: A Better World, Run by Women [View all]calimary
(81,193 posts)Glad you're here! As you can see, there's heated discussion about a lot of stuff here. People have strong opinions. It's VERY illuminating and beneficial to be able to read and study and consider so many different takes on the issues here. I always come away just a little more educated. I suppose I would fall into the category of - hey, the men have had millennia to fuck things up. Let's give the other half of the world a chance. We've had 44 male presidents. We haven't had even ONE woman in there yet??? Forty-four to nothing? Um... there's a statistic that could certainly stand some adjustment, I think. And granted, for every Eleanor Roosevelt, there's a Margaret Thatcher, although I would suggest maybe that would be ten or 20 Eleanor Roosevelts to one Maggie. Yes. We women are just as capable of fucking things up as any man is. Being human, for one thing. But I was particularly intrigued by the passage about the different geographies of the male and female brains.
"As women come to hold more power and public authority, will they become just like men? I dont think so. Show me a male brain, and I will show you a bulging amygdalathe brains center of fear and violencedensely dotted with testosterone receptors. Women lack the biological tripwires that lead men to react to small threats with exaggerated violence and to sexual temptation with recklessness."
Well, there's that science thing again... and I happen to be a believer in science as well.