Reply #57: The idea... [View All]

... that men and women are exactly alike except for plumbing was uncritically accepted as fact by certain social movements. Their evidence? Nothing whatsoever as far as I can tell.

There is plenty of scientific evidence that men and women ARE different - but it is more pleasant and fulfulling for many to believe it is all a question of nurture versus nature.

There have been two generations since the general acceptance of equal rights for women and attempts to use affirmative action to remedy the unfairness that was clearly visited on them in academia and professional arenas. Where are the female scientific/math stars?

The outrage against the man is nothing more than Political Correctness, the same kind that hobbled the feminist movement (that made the leap from the moral and correct 'women should have equal rights as men' to 'women are the same as men') and many other liberal causes. Wishing something were true because it fits your utopian vision is fine, but expecting everyone to believe you is not.

Men and women are the products of evolution, and each evolved to fulfull a particular role. This is not to say that, in modern society, a woman cannot do anything a man can do, there are plenty who can and do. IMHO, women make better company CEOs than men, as a simple example. Women should have equal rights to men in every way, but men and women are not "the same", and they never will be - well not within a million years or so anyway, and I don't know why they would even want to.