Log #6: Battle of the Sexes (Part 3 of 3)

Greetings. Happy Saturday. Time for another classic log! You feeling me? Tuesday I gave my own personal insight on basic female psychology (sorry for making it sound so advanced.. It's easier than saying "I took some shots in the dark on how I believe that females think"). Today I'm going to show why each sex has it's own "predetermined" social roles and why they're changing today.

If you love 80%, then why don't we just round it already? ;)

From the beginning of time; men and women have relied on each other. Before we obtained our considerably advanced knowledge that we all know today; things were very simple. There's no point in questioning the mysteries of cold fusion and black holes while your very existence is at stake. So to make things simple; cavemen, indian tribes and basic civilizations had the men and women do what they were good at.

As we touched on briefly in previous logs, different core values help determine the behavior of both sexes! So while women were for the most part non-confrontational men were the exact opposite. In order for a man to maintain power and stability in his tribe/posse he would have to be the hardest, toughest muthaluver out there.

Meme's can't always be 100% relevant!

So the men were placed in charge of leading/protecting essentially the elderly, the youth, and the women. This automatically placed disdain on the women, because though taking care of the children +elderly was an important job, it didn't seem specifically relevant to everyday life. Especially when said elderly die, and said children grow up to nurture or protect their loved ones. As the generations passed by, and defending the posse became more difficult as enemies became more numerous and powerful these negative tensions towards women grew even more powerful.

This might lead you to question that why such tensions would remain even today? However, if you pay close attention you'll notice that across the year's as more jobs were discovered and a civilizations needs grew men's role was constantly expanded; leaving the men with a feeling of superiority when compared to the meager role of the women. Because not only were the men expected to continue to fulfill the warrior role of society, they were expected to be anything from farmers, to bankers. to kings, to merchants, to sailors, to husbands, to builders, to.... I think you get it by now.

Seeing that I've stated the obvious I'll generalize the rest. Women got bored, Women got jealous but most importantly; Women hated feeling inferior. And that's the most important factor that led to the fight for women's equality. Women wormed their way into all corners of the work force and into schools. Oddly enough this only strengthened tensions because that sense of inferiority is still around today.

Your Woman doesn't need protecting. She's "Independent" now.

 So basically that being said; they'll never be an end to sexism because of this culturally forced inferiority. The inferiority derives from chivalry. Chivalry basically is the excuse as to why women shouldn't have all these rights. Just the "let-the-men-handle-it" mentality that's been ingrained in everyone pretty much since men were declared the warriors of society. The warrior/soldier role will always be dedicated to men because they built it and have held it for so long, and honestly is the reason while sexism will continue to inherently exist.Because essentially the most important thing on this earth besides the people who put food in your mouth, is the people who keep you from becoming food (or dead). So as long as men dominate the most important job in the world.... Sexism will never die.

 I think this syncs up with Carl Jungs Theory of Collective Unconscious? (Basically Pre-learned things that are passed on through each generation through the human race... Er, you should probably just look it up.) But that's all I think I was supposed to touch on this log. Sorry if it came across like an essay, but that's just how it came through my mind. It's come to me that it's most likely going to be problematic posting log's on Friday as you might have guessed. So I think I'll just start posting them Saturday. Anyways, that being said; As requested the next log will be on relationships! (Finally! One I can really have fun with. ;D ) Be sure to check it out. I don't think It'll be something to miss.

Log #5: Battle of the Sexes (Part 2 of 3)

So Saturday I gave some insight on the male perspective, now it's time for me to attempt the very complicated, very mysterious, female perspective.

Because you're hot and you're cold.

 Okay forgive me ladies. I'm short on time, and I couldn't find many resources about you online. You socially clandestine miscreants, you. ;D So I'm going to give this a shot from the recesses of my mind and the things I've noticed and experienced. Women can be broken down into a few core categories.

Beauty

Or at least.. That's what you wish would happen.

I've always asked myself.. Why the heck do girl's dress up? Especially at School. I mean, guy's are into you looking nice.. But you can pretty much win over any guy with a V neck shirt or yoga pants. So why do they try to look so good?
Social status. It's all about social status. The desire to be noticed. If men gauge each other by strength and respectability, women judge each other by looks first. Because honestly, who wants to hang out with someone who looks like crap? It makes your taste in clothes and friends look worse.
Girl's who dress nice seem to hang around with girl's who dress up seem to be more popular than those who don't. I've seen this all around school. In short, I believe that girl's dress up for girl's first; then guys. This also explains why women can take so long to get ready in the morning...

Empathy

 

Empathy, As defined by Merriam Webster's online dictionary is: " the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience"

This basically means you can feel other people's pain. Woman are more empathetic than men, it's true because they tend to think about how their actions might effect someone else. For example, if someone made really sour lemonade for you but thought it was the best thing ever, a girl would be more likely to receive it politely and say something like: "It was good.. But I think It'd be better with more sugar." This makes girl's naturally more diplomatic than boys. And also makes them less-confrontational.

Pacifist

  

Women for the most part seem non-confrontational. Which more often than not leads to their downfall everywhere. They act too empathetic often enough to the point of indecision. This is often seen in the classic "girl-in-an-abusive-relationship scenario". Oh.. He's not abusing me.. He's just going through something right now.. Oh he didn't mean to hit me.. He'd never do it again.. When it comes down to it, typically women won't fight back. Maybe it's because they're afraid of getting hurt? Because if they're facing a man typically the man will be stronger. 

But often enough this is even seen in social situations.. Women fear hurting someone elses' feelings so much sometimes that they just end up hurting themselves.. I've seen this too many times to not believe that this is true.

While this might not have been my longest log, I believe it was a good shot at trying to determine the female perspective. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about anything. I'd love your input. Friday, I shall conclude the "Battle of the Sexes" mini-series with "Comparison" and how these factors influence direct comparison.