Instead of competing with one another, why not recognize that we both have certain strengths and weaknesses that God/nature bestowed upon us.
I don't think that anybody's taking the position that all human beings are precisely identical.
I'm male. That makes me generally taller than most women. But I'm usually taller than most men, too. When something's on the top shelf, I'm the one that gets asked to grab it a lot, and I'm ok with that.
If one of the women I worked with was a lot taller than me, she'd probably be the one who got asked. People wouldn't ignore her height just because she was a woman and women tend to be shorter than men. Her
individual qualifications and traits are what are relevant, not the generalities of her gender. In fact I can't think of a
single situation where a decision should begin and end at "what's your sex?" It
always should come down to the individual, because the individual is what you get. You don't ever get the generality. Every human being has their own individual strengths and weakenesses, and that's what they should be judged on.
That's the feminist position. It doesn't ignore biological differences between men and women. That would be idiotic! But unlike the position of the sexists, it realizes that the "generalized woman" or the "generalized man" are not individuals that
actually exist. So what does it matter what qualities they have? Those are never the qualities you're going to get.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
I also mentioned that it was a matter of statistical fact that men are typically more adept at mathemtaics than women and that women are more linguistic than men. I was shocked to hear that no one knew what I was talking about.
Everybody already knew what you were talking about. We're all shocked by what
you don't seem to know - that when you correct for an educational culture that doesn't prize or promote mathematical ability in women, those differences in aptitude largely vanish.
Of course the average female score is lower than the male. Women are always told how bad at math they are? Never mind that, among married couples, the wife is usually the one who balances the checkbook.
This doesn't mean that men are stupid and women are smart, or vice versa, it means exactly what I stated, that we share different strengths and weaknesses and that we compliment one another quite nicely.
I don't see how it means that at all. People have individual strengths and weaknesses. Why is that something we have to link to sex? What possible relevance would sex be on a person's individual qualities? Either they're strong, or they're weak. Smart, or dumb. What's the relevance of their gender to that?
life is all about duality not some androgenous and monotonously drab existence.
Life is about individuality, not assuming that because someone belongs to a group, they're exactly identical to the average member of that group.
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