Theme: Sex Differences

OBJECTIFY AND SUBJECTIFY – MEN VS WOMEN IN DEBATE

One more fascinating difference between women and men in debate.

As men, our ideas are separate from ourselves. We discuss, and argue, whenever possible with facts, not experiences. Women think we objectify them. Well, the fact is we do. But women aren’t special. We objectify everything. Objectifying things is what makes us MEN.

With women, their ideas are indistinguishable from themselves. They discuss, argue, with experiences not facts independent of experiences. Women SUBJECTIFY everything. That is what makes them WOMEN.

This is why men dominate debates (and hard sciences). If our arguments fail, we just try a different one, and learn from it. It isn’t personal. With women, not only is there argument a failure, but because it is intertwined with their emotional experiences, and because the identify with their emotional experiences they feel, far too often, that they have failed.

Yet another reason why it is so much easier to be a male. I get exhausted whenever I try to think like a woman. I can do it for about half a second before I’m completely incapable of reason, and collapse from exhaustion. 😉

But who would take care of screaming irrational children if women operated like men do? We’d be extinct.

PS: now, before some idiot says “not all women”, please understand that categories that are universal describe distributions. It’s implicit that we are UNEQUAL even within gender, and therefore as UNEQUAL within gender, we can be described along multiple distributions. I realize that simple people think in simple terms (equality) but grownups think in terms of distributions and equilibria. ie: a point described by an ideal type, vs multiple-axis.

The world is fascinating really if you don’t subscribe to dogma. 🙂

🙂