Quote: (09-25-2013 08:13 PM)Courage Reborn Wrote:
The harder they act on the outside, the sweeter the girl on the inside:
1. Israeli
2. Russian/Ukraine/FSU
3. Latina
4. German, Western European
5. American
6. Australian/UK/Scandanavian
Can't speak on black girls or the Asian persuasian
Before I go on a totally thread derailing rant, let me say I haven't been to the countries where women have it hardest.
people are nice because it pays to be nice. Where are the divorce rates the lowest? Who asks for the divorces? This could be about the biggest insult a woman can give you I would argue. See below. We know there are some factors like social pressure not to divorce, but all the wealthiest countries except Japan have higher rates than 15%. Except Italy, I've heard it takes 5-7 years to get divorced in Italy, the de facto breakup rates are probably higher.
The "soft-center" idea sounds good as a theory, but it is a romanticized and idealistic view-- IMO it's not as symmetrical and abstract as that.
Tragically, if a woman acts like a hardened imitation-man for an extended period of time, her most important ability- the ability to be sensitive to the needs of others and protect from discomfort and to nurture-- to attend to the individually small but in total important things in life--atrophy and she essentially becomes a low-quality man in some ways.
The old phrase that a home needs a woman's touch was a reference to this. There is in a healthy woman a sense of tidiness and convenience, of how to make a space comforting and inviting, that most men don't really have. Men can make a space spacious, organized, and practical, but there is an art to making a HOME that women are inherently better at, just as men are better at engineering a a computer system.
This is why women can be very good health care practitioners except at the extreme high levels of difficulty like neurosurgery.
They can sense discomfort more, and they can learn fact databases like which symptoms map to which diseases. But in an area with pure abstractin such as engineering they are simply very inferior. Whether they "can't" or "won't" because some beta will pay her way is irrelevant. The practical truth is "they don't". Look at undergrad engineering majors below: Less than 20% female and declining. No one has been keeping women out of engineering for 2-3 decades!! It is absurd to claim that this is due to bias.
This does NOT mean I advocate some Saudi Arabian cavemen repression of women. There are talented outliers. If a woman wants to become an engineer, I say encourage her and even give her extra money ( more than I would get as a man) . I am open-minded, maybe there is a benefit to having diversity in the work force, and a woman may be able to add some ideas men would be less likely to have.
For example, I am convinced that Apple computers are easier to use than Windows machines because Apple included people with education experience in their design teams. People who knew what was REALLY easy to use rather than engineers who thought they knew what SHOULD be easy to use.
I'd put that analogy that if we are born to walk a certain amount every day, and we sit in chairs 99.5% of the time for years and years, we do not at all "store up" the desire and ability to walk, and have a greater and hidden ability to walk. This is what one would assume from your assertion that women from the hard cultures are softer inside.
This is because human personality traits are not abstract Platonic energies in a perfect state of preservation-- they are neuromuscular skills based on built in tendencies, as evidenced by the fact that female newborns already look at the faces of people more than male newborns. They are already checking their social surroundings, learning to apply their superior nurturing potential.
if they are instead pushed to be academic drones or whatever status-seeking trait that their parents want them to have, there is a zero-sum element to that chase. Take your time and COOK for people? I'm too smart for that.
In fact, we will resist walking as we will be 100 lbs overweight, and walking too much would even be potentially dangerous ( say, in hot weather) and it would take a long period of diet and conditioning , probably forced on us, for us to regain most (it would never be all) of our natural ability to walk.
This is what is tragic about misguided doctrinaire feminism-- millions of childless spinsters, realizing they missed out, trying to get what solace they can from cats.
There is no second chance in life once women's eggs hit the wall.