[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Also, men and women are NOT more or less-inclined toward authority or nurture or anything like that as a matter of genetics or sex or whatever. Those differences ONLY exist as a social construct. The fact is that many women do not exhibit the same ability to lead groups and all that shit that men do because they haven’t typically been placed in those roles to the same extent that men are.
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You think like a woman.
Seriously.
If you are insulted you are sexist -----> double bind, yayyyy
“havent been placed in those roles”?
Fo realz?
You think leaders “are placed in roles”?
Ya, but they place themselves-[/quote]
And how does a woman think?
Leaders aren’t placed in roles, they earn them. What I meant, and what you are clearly not intelligent enough to understand, is that men in general have been given access to the public sphere that women have not had up until about 30 or 40 years ago.
Women are not typically found in leadership roles for myriad reasons, not the least of which is that men have traditionally dominated the workforce. Now that women are entering the corporate world at a much higher rate than ever before, we are seeing more and more women in positions of leadership: Hillary Clinton, Meg Whitman, Marissa Meyer and Gina Rommetti, to name a few.
Those women have placed themselves in those roles on their own merit. Now, are you trying to argue that there is some sort of biological predisposition that men have toward leadership roles that women don’t? Are you trying to insinuate that there is some sort of “leadership” gene or something like that which is only found in men?
If I recall correctly, there are 20 female CEOs in the Fortune 500. That is a record amount of women on that list. I GUARANTEE you that ten years from now that number will be bigger. Ten years after that, it will be even bigger and so on. The point is that as more and more women enter the corporate world and more and more men realize that leadership isn’t an exclusively male phenomenon, there will be more and more women “placing” themselves in leadership roles.[/quote]
First of all, and you are clearly not clever enough to understand that, MAN BUILT THE FUCKING PUBLIC SPHERE.
Men will always have a natural advantage because of that alone.
Then, 20 out of 500?
Impressive.
It might even double?
Fuck me, I guess its settled then.
And no, there is no “leadership” gene, but there is such a thing as social dominance and that actually is kind of hard to pull off if you have the testosterone level of a hamster.
If you have equal intelligence, dominance and the natural ability to fit into hierarchies matters.
Also, women are basically hypergamic, meaning they fuck upwards, almost with no exception, which means men will always have a stronger incentive to rise to the top because it makes their options increase, whereas womens options decrease the higher they climb.
Summary:
Men have more to gain, reproductively speaking, therefore have the instincts to pull it off and the drive to do so.
Voila, men make more money. [/quote]
I’m not clever enough to understand that men built the public sphere? I’ve only stated as much several times in this thread already.
And thank you for making my point for me. I could never be as succinct as you have been.
Men created the public sphere. They created it and kept women out of it because women were a threat to the scarce jobs available. It was not a naturally constructed concept that evolved on its own. Men consciously kept women from working. Women were not excluded because they were incapable of working but simply because they were women. The fact is that women were better at many industrial jobs than men were and men initially stayed at home.
Your claim that women are hypergamic is rooted entirely in assumption and innuendo, something I am starting to see is a pattern here with you. You start with a totally false premise and your conclusion builds from that. I love how these premises are such that they can never be quantified either. You are completely intellectually dishonest in this respect. How the FUCK can anyone prove that women only fuck upwards? Especially given that women in general earn less than men and as such, are much more likely to fuck someone earning more than them no matter what.[/quote]
First of all, what we call “feminism” is nothing new.
Whenever the public sphere got safer, women started to play a bigger role in it.
Second, hell no, it is not a natural concept, nothing we call civilization is.
Then, nobody “kept” women from working. The simple fact of the matter is that most jobs not so long ago where hard, back breaking physical labor and due to such highly relevant factors like strength, aerobic capacity, bone density and whatnot women simply could not compete.
Not that they were eager to climb down a mine or plow a field, I doubt that the men were.
My claim that women are hypergamic is actually very well documented:
- Geneticists now believe that 80% of all women procreated, but only 40% of all men.
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm
- There is an iron link between sexual dimorphism and polygamy. The bigger the male compared to the female, the fiercer the competition is.
We are not THAT polygamous, but we most certainly are and in part because females always have chosen to be the second or third partner of a high ranking male than to accept inferior genes with no hope of acquiring the resources to raise their offspring.




