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Originally Posted by wildernesse
War is a male invention? Good grief--how would you ever prove that? War (competition for resources and dominance, even violently) seems to be a natural part of the biological world, nothing human male invented about it.
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Agreed. But it's the male that seems to suffer the most for it. Males are the tools of war, regardless.
And I still say that there was a lot of unwarrented gender-aggrandizement at the beginnings of the "feminist" movement. One of those was that an increase in the number of women in power would significantly improve governance. As that blossoms (as well it should), it has proven to be just as misguided as male leadership in power. I do not argue that they should not be in places of power, or that we should return to the gender/power distribution of earlier generations, or that women should play some lesser to nonexistant role in politics. Women should have an equal role to men in wielding and sharing the power of our communities, indeed, given the current biological realities, they should probably dominate places of power.
My point is that when they do, there will be no significant change in the product of politics.
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