Perspective
In order for there to be a "female... perspective" then there must be an inherent difference between females and males.
Well, you see, there
are some.
One "inherent difference" plays a part in the role females generally play in rape scenarios. Another "inherent difference" is involved in child bearing. Then there are obvious physical shape and size differences.
Those are differences that simply can't be talked away.
The mistake is to believe that the
obvious inherent differences somehow translate to into differences in skill and intellect.
Many generations of men have fully appreciated that the skill and intellect of women is entirely equal to that of men. This appreciation, in some cases, led to a concerted effort to deny literacy and access to women -- not because they
couldn't compete in areas of skill and intellect -- but because they
could.
Many generations of women have developed various subtleties and subterfuges to allow them to cope with their physically restricted situations. Much of this has had to take place in secret. Oftentimes men have decided that, because women had to use covert channels, that women must be conniving and evil.
Some men appreciated the irony of this. Others invented witches.
True civilization occurs only when men can permit themselves to cease the physical restraint of women and allow them to achieve whatever their skills and intellect can attain.
The irony? Men
NEED women. In multiple senses.
"Women! Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em."
And so it was.
No, I don't have the historic insight to see back to the place and time where men decided women were a threat to their leadership. There's evidence enough of this in the present day.
Look, ladies, there are a lot of scared men out there. They need help to get past the cultural crap they've inherited.
On the other hand, there are men like those my parents raised, and many others like them. Quite a few, actually.
If I can achieve the insight to know what women are up against, and help them where I can, perhaps the women can cut some of the guys a break, too.
Some day I'll describe for you, in detail, what my wife does for a living. I don't know a handful of guys who could keep up.
Still, in spite of the fact that she can beat me at cards, Scrabble, and that code cracker game with the colored pegs -- and beat me consistently -- I am still the guy who has the job of Family Protector.
It's a role on which we've agreed.
Are we our own worst enemies?
Actually, no. We have real people with real plans and real funding who really want us gone.
THEY are our true and worst enemies.
We often help them out more than we should. Sometimes that's just because we get bored and take our eye off the mountain.
It's good to have a guy out in front who carries the flag and who reminds us from time to time where the mountain is and that it's our objective to reach it.
Oleg carries the flag, and some of us step up and help him.
Remember the vision and the goal and keep that firmly out there over your "front sight" and there will be a whole lot less over which to squabble.
I want my lady at my side when the shooting starts.
And I want to know she shoots as well as I do.
Better, if I can manage it.
are the threads in which it is apparently accepted to spout abusive bitterness about one's ex(es). Frankly, I'm sure the pain is the rightful fruit of sorrowful experience, but I'm WAY past tired of reading about it. You don't want to know about my past love life. I don't really want to know about yours. If we did, we'd be on a chat room with that as the topic, not a gun forum. Gag me.
