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The Women’s March: a male perspective.
There is a kind of ebb and flow in human societies with gender roles that can evolve over time. In simplistic terms if we go back to the dawn of civilization it is generally agreed that men were hunters and women were gatherers. This does not mean that there were not women who hunted or men who gathered. What it does mean is that the sexes are generally the recipients of a biological inheritance that can steer them into a structured mode of conduct.
The distribution of testosterone for the most part guarantees that males are more ruggedly built and better able to withstand an environment of action and physical risk. Females naturally progressed into a complimentary supporting capacity nurturing children and maintaining the home front to ensure the survival of the group.
Admittedly superficial, this arrangement worked reasonably well over the centuries until modern technology supplanted the drudgery and risk and resulted in exploding populations. In contemporary societies the relationship between males and females is becoming increasingly complex.
In Betty Friedan’s 1963 work, The Feminine Mystique, she elegantly and astutely points out that happiness is an important thing for either sex and women were sacrificing their personal identities by relegating themselves to an unappreciated secondary role as homemakers even if they were financially secure.
Once the nest was empty many American females found themselves in a rudderless existence with an expired identity. Valium and alcohol were often the crutches of choice and the outcome was becoming culturally bleak.
Then came the Great Society and many women found themselves thrust into the workforce as government agencies fed and grew on the carnage of responsible fatherhood in favor of absentee sperm donors. This led to much confusion as women who still needed a suitable personal identity had to choose between a welfare check and an underpaid, dead-end job.
Now the women take to the streets in resistance to protest their unhappiness with the way things are going. They are still tethered to the same biological reality that is apparently the source of their torment. Yet they march and petition the same government that took away their husbands forcing them to be hunters and gatherers all by themselves.
Instead of crowding cities in mobs and carrying signs that profess hate for the president these women should be resisting a government that tampered with their lives and took away their mates.
There is a kind of ebb and flow in human societies with gender roles that can evolve over time. In simplistic terms if we go back to the dawn of civilization it is generally agreed that men were hunters and women were gatherers. This does not mean that there were not women who hunted or men who gathered. What it does mean is that the sexes are generally the recipients of a biological inheritance that can steer them into a structured mode of conduct.
The distribution of testosterone for the most part guarantees that males are more ruggedly built and better able to withstand an environment of action and physical risk. Females naturally progressed into a complimentary supporting capacity nurturing children and maintaining the home front to ensure the survival of the group.
Admittedly superficial, this arrangement worked reasonably well over the centuries until modern technology supplanted the drudgery and risk and resulted in exploding populations. In contemporary societies the relationship between males and females is becoming increasingly complex.
In Betty Friedan’s 1963 work, The Feminine Mystique, she elegantly and astutely points out that happiness is an important thing for either sex and women were sacrificing their personal identities by relegating themselves to an unappreciated secondary role as homemakers even if they were financially secure.
Once the nest was empty many American females found themselves in a rudderless existence with an expired identity. Valium and alcohol were often the crutches of choice and the outcome was becoming culturally bleak.
Then came the Great Society and many women found themselves thrust into the workforce as government agencies fed and grew on the carnage of responsible fatherhood in favor of absentee sperm donors. This led to much confusion as women who still needed a suitable personal identity had to choose between a welfare check and an underpaid, dead-end job.
Now the women take to the streets in resistance to protest their unhappiness with the way things are going. They are still tethered to the same biological reality that is apparently the source of their torment. Yet they march and petition the same government that took away their husbands forcing them to be hunters and gatherers all by themselves.
Instead of crowding cities in mobs and carrying signs that profess hate for the president these women should be resisting a government that tampered with their lives and took away their mates.
