Women

[Alex Bragi]

After a particularly nasty experience with a woman I had a relationship of sorts with, I took somewhat of a step back from relationships and spent a lot of time reading philosophy. This was as much due to my health as much as anything else I should add.

I'm sorry to read about your "nasty experience", and I hope your health is improving now.

I was reading Schoppenhauer who is a bit of a misogynist and came across this quote which pretty much summed up my experience...

"Hence, it will be found that the fundamental fault of the female character is...(Blah-blah)....Nature has assigned to them as the weaker sex...(Blah-blah)... (Blurh!)

Schoppenhauer? Well, to be perfectly honest, I'd never heard of the fellow before I saw his name here, so I googled him.

Now really, I ask you, how relevant to us are the ramblings of man, who was born only a few years after the last woman was burnt at the stake for being a 'witch'? I mean he lived in the wake of possibly the most dogmatic era of Germany, and surely one of the darkest periods in history for women. So, it's quite obvious, to me, what gave this fruity philosopher his odd view of the fair sex.

I think, too, it's important to remember that, in the past, women needed to be "submissive" long before biblical times; for millions of years women were reliant on men's physical strength to provide and protection.

I suppose it's been an inherent attitude that men are physically stronger, and therefore women must submit to their power, or perish at their own peril. Why, even as recently as last century women were considered second rate to the brawnier of our species. However, in our new technology driven world, this attitude is rapidly changing. It's interesting to see, as we move into the 21-century and beyond, as we rely more on our mental abilities, how women are becoming less dependent on men for their material needs.

Ah, but I digress..

Recent studies show that women are actually better at communicating than men and, sorry, just to make all you guys out there feel worse, researchers also concludes that women make better investment decisions than men. A survey by "Digital Look", a British financial website, found that women consistently earn higher returns for their investments.

Yes, Sir (Ma'am?), right now women are surely, economically speaking, the modern world's most under utilised resource.

Ah, but I digress yet again...

As it's already be stated here, men and women think very differently. I feel it's just something that's evolved. While women have perhaps needed to develop into better communicationers to survive and manipulate their physically stronger mates, men in their dominance have not, and therefore have not developed the same skills.

So, maybe what you've really got ask is, not "Are there miscommunications merely an excuse, or are there major differences in the sexes that prevent open communication? But, can a few decades of social engineering change millions of years of human evolution?