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Is it really sexist to say that women and men are different?
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I was going to say that.
Either way, I love your signature
Aye, someone said it and i liked it.....now i wonder who it was :chin:
Typical male
It is sexist to say that men and women have intrinsic mental and emotional differences and therefore there ARE things that either sex does better than the other because of this? (not to say that it can't be done by both but that one will do it better, or find it easier)
No, if we take the term sexism, it's actually being prejudiced / discriminatory / persecutive towards a sex, as racism is to race. So if we point out that different sexes are better at different things, it's like people pointing out black people are more physically powerful, at least with sprinting (a lot of 100m sprinters are black). Also like saying Chinese people are more predisposed to putting on weight, because they've adapted to a low-fat diet, when they eat a little bit of our food, it just piles on!
Men, supposedly, are found to be more able at maths and science. Women, on the other hand, are good at creative things and language (all the gossiping
Men are always going to find it easier to do manual things, women are always going to find it easier to do delicate things (i.e. sewing). I know this is sort of like a stereotype, but the thing is, women are nimble fingered (I think it stems from being foragers) and men are more athletically built.
This doesn't mean that a man can never be a great sew-er (if thats a vocation :eek2:) and a woman can't ever be a great athlete. It's just because of their genetic build up and heredetary traits due to thousands of years of slow evolution of each sex to live in a hunter-gatherer culture.
When the day comes that someone saying that it's sexist to say women are naturally better mothers, and that men are naturally better labourers, then we've reached a point in society where we begin to refute the basic differences in abilities between the sexes. If we look at LOTR for a minute
Mind you don't go confusing equality with equation. Equality is about giving every person the same opoportunity to do what they want to do, not about making sure that there are fixed quotas of every group, racial and gender, in every workplace.
People blur the lines so often, I do actually believe that it has been done deliberately as a way of turning people against the idea of equality.