FEELING VS KNOWING – THE GREAT GENDER DIVIDE A man’s first instinct is to questi

FEELING VS KNOWING – THE GREAT GENDER DIVIDE

A man’s first instinct is to question whether something is true. A woman’s first instinct is to question whether something is desirable. A man’s first instinct is to describe a distribution. A woman’s first instinct is to describe a uniformity. A man’s first instinct is to question whether someone will obtain a valuable advantage. A woman’s first instinct is to question whether someone’s being left behind. In the main, without extraordinary training, women are of zero or negative value in politics for these reasons. They will weaken and destroy a polity. Why? Because women evolved to pre-rationally intuit to a degree we call ‘panic’ whether her offspring will be left behind by the needs of the tribe. And women are less able to disconnect the emotional from the rational in matters political. Women simply possess less agency. And if they didn’t, we wouldn’t exist today.