Quote from: valyn_faer on October 16, 2010, 10:31:19 AM
Women do the same thing, our culture is just less likely to acknowledge it when it happens. We're just socialized not to see it as "a struggle for dominance" when women do it. It's like the study that was done in the 70's. They had video footage of an infant crying and asked two groups what emotion the infant was expressing. They told the first group it was a baby boy and the group said the infant was expressing anger. They told the second group it was a baby girl and the group said the infant was expressing fear. Our culture has biased interpretations of actions based on the perceived sex of the individual committing the action.
Also, there are over 50 studies that show women commit just as much domestic violence as men, on all levels of severity. I think it's interesting that it's both sexist and wrong for a man to hit a woman, yet also sexist and wrong for him to not hit a women simply because she's a woman. It really goes to show the no win situation men are in now in our society (Western society in general?). And I think it's interesting how so many feminists claim we live in a culture that condones violence against women, when so many men still have the view that it's never okay to hit a woman. Doh. Pesky empirical evidence, always getting in the way of ideologies. Well that simply isn't true. There is a massive amount of evidence that contradicts this. Not to mention that women definitely don't treat me as their equal when I use the women's fitting rooms or women's restrooms. In fact, I experience far more discrimination from women than I do from men. I don't buy the "women are innately more egalitarian and less discriminatory" crap. There's too much evidence that shows it simply isn't true.
I recall that study. There were a number of different experimets, all of which were very interesting in themselves.
The problem with it was that it sought conclusions about our society. Whereas, what it actually discovered were mannerisms and behaviours common to humans in general.
That is a very different point.
feminists, almost always make the same mistake, claiming that features and behaviours emerge from our culture, whereas, they are generally common to all humanity.
The greatest problem is that most of these studies are done in the US. They tend to take, as their bench mark, the so called native societies, Inuit, N American natives, south American natives. These cultures are heavly contrived, largely becase they were utterly decimated, only rebuilding afterward. One of the more silly claims about the Inuit, for example, is they have no word for war. In reality, that is as relevant as saying Scots Gaelic, (ancient), has no word for no.
Domestic violence is also common to all human groups. It is a different condition altogether, from the situations we are discussing here.
I do thank you for your input. It's refreshing to have an exchange of views with someone also interested in society as a subject.
