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In reply to the discussion: Shall women serve in combat? [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)24. You are taking wishful thinking to a new level with unintended consequences and meanings.
I'm sure you think that you are saying something positive about women by claiming that, absent men, women aren't capable of certain things or wouldn't come up with certain ideas about how to act, but what you are saying isn't a net positive for women at all.
You are taking part of women's humanity away from them if you are claiming that, absent a male example, they are not capable of the same range of emotions, motives, responses and actions that men are.
And the evidence suggests otherwise, both on a macro and micro scale.
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There is nothing bashing in what I said. I didn't say they didn't invent anything.
MotherPetrie
Mar 2013
#21
Wow - out of thousands of years of countless male warmongers, you manged to find
MotherPetrie
Mar 2013
#20
If so, that's because women are trying to emulate men -- AKA the power sex.
MotherPetrie
Mar 2013
#23
You are taking wishful thinking to a new level with unintended consequences and meanings.
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#24
Like those who commit murder don't think they will be caught, those who start wars assume they will
stevenleser
Sep 2014
#35
100% equality and equal opportunities in the military and beyond. Period. nt
stevenleser
Mar 2013
#19