Who wrote the scriptures? It’s not coincidental that religions, written and codified by men, place men at the top.
There is a difference between a leader and a ruler.
So men have been at the top way since back when… lol
I don’t place women as less worth or value, just (on the whole) more suited to shield bearer than swordsman. Without either component, it doesn’t work as well, or at all.
Our little experiment in Great Society demonstrates this through several generations.
I understand what you are saying but, when you look at the average man these days, how many are swordsmen?
I think what some posters are saying is that leadership roles are typically filled by the few who are outliers among their sex. We can say men make better leaders but it’s not men, but some men. And there just might be some women who share the same qualities as those men.
To me the more interesting question is can a woman have the qualities of a good leader while retaining the qualities we consider feminine? If we say women are better at nurturing, then can a female leader be a great leader while also being a nurturer? I think we think of leaders as being fatherly but why not have leaders who are motherly?
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Go see the provisions of the law in the section that was posted. 2 of the objectives are to not bring down morale of other military members and to not make the military look bad.
Military law is quite different from normal laws. I’ve said before somewhere else with regards to the topic of mandatory service: Lots of people would be mindblown when they realize what they signed up for lol.
EXACTLY.
Yup. A bigger talent pool would benefit society. We’ve had shitty male leaders. We’ve had shitty female ones. But it’s akin to basic economics at the higher levels in the mid to long term. More competition generally leads to better products. That’s what I hope will happen.
Of course, we don’t want to artificially prop women up to these levels. That would fuck things up. This should happen organically. All I’ve been saying in all these threads about this shit is that women should grow up knowing they have such opportunities if they choose to pursue them. Men have been told they do all their lives. How many actually live up to these standards?
Depends on the kind of industry or even society.
I’m insure of where you see this. Are you talking about some universal concept? As far back as I can remember, pretty much going back to kindergarten here in the US, I don’t recall any girl or woman being stifled by society at large, and boomer parents have been urging women to pursue whatever they want and permitting near everything, including women putting themselves in dangerous situations. Some enthusiastically pressure daughters to be high achievers.
Additionally, since the nineties especially, I have lived in a society that worships women. I vividly recall damn near all entertainment and commercial media being saturated with sexual and romantic imagery of women. Billboards, television commercials, so-called “sex comedies” like Hardbodies, Spring Break, Revenge of the Nerds, Porky’s, etc. (in which every male buffoon is groveling to, salivating over, and angling to get women), perfume ads, mass pornography that came out with the Spice channel, smut mags, Sports Illustrated.
The same happened with music too. Does anyone reminder 80s and 90s freestyle? Anyone can tune into You Tube and search for any male performer in that genre and see that near 100 percent (not kidding) of those songs have to deal with the adoration of women and heartbreak over them. One might think while listening to such songs that the men are ready to crack up. Go listen to Silent Morning by Noel or Fantasy Girl by Johnny O or any Stevie B song.
Then the early 2000s came around with Sex and the City and quite abruptly and it seemed there was a mass exodus of women to Manhattan. So many high-school- classmate women seemed to live in or were moving to the city. And it seemed that perhaps a third of women I encountered on a dating site were doing the same. I schlepped to Manhattan for quite a few meetups and spent time with a woman from there for a season. To afford live there these women were using opportunities.
All over the place then and now: female attorneys, advertising and business executives, administrators, school teachers, psychologists, media professionals, publishers, and a whole slew of other society-shaping positions. Female multimillionaires and a female billionaire.
For quite some time women in the US have been the most educated, adored, protected, worshipped, and even coddled group as far as I see it. So if someone like the OP described, who wishes for more power and more inpower, I ask myself if such a man is actually referring to female supremacy at this point.
And just like there are those who make posts such as these are assumed to be incels, “can’t get laid”, are angry, or feel owed something, one can turn around and assume those who think otherwise are trying to get laid, curry favor with women, or are under some eternal mommy spell. But I refrain from doing that, despite the fact that with all I’ve discussed here, some men are concerned with female involvement in public life and work when women have been all over public life (actually even saturating it with the aforementioned images) for a long time. And there is what I see as a peculiar sexual competition between modern men that happens in matriarchy, and an aim to vilify any man who makes a critical statement about women as a whole, as if the guy is evil or deranged.
In what country have you seen the stifling of women? And when?
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Good luck, Pat, but please be careful not to sacrifice yourself to a cause.
And check in when you’re back, because I was just about to really crush you with my cool logic and irrefutable points.
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Is this bad? Barring hellicopter parenting, a parent should strive for their child to be academically optimised so long as the pressure is supportive and within the realm of realism.
Don’t diss revenge of the nerds! That movie was hilarious! We can just forget about that scene where the guy dresses up as a jock and “tricks” his gf… Because that was disgusting… Other than that, I remember that movie being hilarious.
I’m really good with movie names. Let’s see how many of these I can name off the top of my head (won’t name sequels)
Fast Times at Ridgemont high, American pie, animal house, not another teen movie, eurotrip, the girl next door, van wilder, the sure thing, private lessons, once bitten, the to do list, dirty grandpa, the 40 year old virgin, losin it, orgazmo, Flesh Gordon… Does Boogie nights count? That movie is FAR more depressing than it is funny…
I haven’t actually seen the vast majority of these, I retain movie names (and plots!)… And the dates when they came out… #oddcharacteristics #randomhobbies
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Because that was an example of worshipping women. The fact that the woman was ok with being raped sent a real strange message.
No, it’s not bad if that’s in line with the woman’s life goals. If the woman wants to start a family young and have three or four kids then pressuring her for things that are incompatible with this goal wouldn’t be good.
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I don’t remember much of it. I think I saw it in the late 80s, at an age I shouldn’t have seen it. I think it was rated R.
You just summed up my childhood .. I saw far too many movies at a far too young of an age .. I think I saw Die Hard when I was like 5 or 6
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Yes. I saw and heard all kinds of music and films I shouldn’t have, perhaps at any age. @polo77j
The first one was, the sequel was PG-13. In Australia both were rated M, which is more/less our pg-13 equivalent
The first one was too crass to be given a PG-13 rating. Australia was always somewhat more lenient when it came to nudity and crude humour, but far stricter when it came to classifying films based on violent content.
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I watched the Texas chainsaw massacre (74) at the tender age of ten. That movie gave me the creeps back then and it still gives me the creeps now… Particularly due to the dinner scene, the overall cinematography and tone/plot of the film.
Speaking of women in power. Those horror films typically have an interesting dynamic pertaining to lead female roles as a “final girl”. Typically consisting of a virginal young woman who manages to refrain from temptation and vice. Whereas those who partake meet grizzly deaths
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Ohhh boy… I think my parents were just clueless
Instead of bedtime stories, my parents would sometimes let me watch Chinese war dramas with my grandparents.
I remember knitting while counting the number of dead Japanese
They also let me watch black swan in 3rd or 4th grade and suggested that I watch the wolf of Wall Street in 5th or 6th grade when I told them I wanted to do investment banking
For some reason though, they were very against me watching Say yes to the dress.
Had they seen these films? Were they aware the content (and for black Swan the entire plot of the film) wasn’t remotely appropriate for anyone below the age of… I want to say fifteen for black Swan, 17 or so for the wolf of wall street
Every kid/teen is different. What is appropriate for one 14y/old might be totally inappropriate for another.
But in no circumstances is either film appropriate for the age ranges you’ve specified
Black Swan is a flat out psychological horror film, the character slowly unravels throughout the film. The art of ballet is seen akin to self inflicted torture within the film. Tricked me too when I first saw it… Didn’t watch the trailer though.
It’s not a bad movie by any means… It’s just not for kids… Whether it’s appropriate for teenagers depends on the age/maturity of said teenager.
Still gives me goosebumps…
Meaning behind black Swan, themes will fly over a kids head but the imagery will give them nightmares…
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Probably b/c they knew it was a garbage movie with a garbage lead actress giving a garbage performance … they knew what was up 
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