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In reply to the discussion: Female Tea Party Leader regrets that women have the right to vote. [View all]If we're gong for evolutionary psychology (which is a terribly messy idea anyway) how can we exclude "the pack" as a selection pressure from the natural selection for "inherent feminine traits"? That would require isolation from the pack, which doesn't make any sense. If anything I'd say women would be MORE likely to experience an internal desire and/or capacity to relate to "the pack". Men would ordinarily have spent more time out of it, going off doing stuff in the Big Wide World, if we're to believe what we're told.
Aside from all that, though I believe men and women have differing instinctive emotional responses to certain kinds of situation, that doesn't in and of itself explain the cultural attribution of extra nastiness when women don't make their true motives or emotions clear, which is what I was originally rerferring to. Men do the same thing all the time and it isn't a "gendered" problem when they do it and it's a "gendered" problem when women do it.
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Female Tea Party Leader regrets that women have the right to vote. [View all]
sufrommich
Mar 2014
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but she is a woman, ergo, feminist, and right to her choices, which makes it a correct choice for
seabeyond
Mar 2014
#4
She is a woman, any man not agreeing with her hates women and does not understand the issue.
The Straight Story
Mar 2014
#36
It's like there's always this weird extra layer when women behave in intrustworthy ways.
sibelian
Mar 2014
#11
It sure was, Le Taz Hot. And that made me cry more than anything else when we lost.
raven mad
Mar 2014
#52
Well, maybe if she would stop pissing off her own gender. she would not be seeing so many
RC
Mar 2014
#16
I would point out to this self hating woman that it is mostly "mean hateful" men who start wars and
yellowcanine
Mar 2014
#22
What she's really saying is that she wants an electorate guaranteed to vote Republican.
nyquil_man
Mar 2014
#28
I agree...although I only regret this one particular woman got the right to vote...
joeybee12
Mar 2014
#34
Nothing forces Janis Lane to vote. Why should we keep talking about her?
struggle4progress
Mar 2014
#35
After abolishing slavery, women's suffrage was the best thing the USA ever did. nt
Deep13
Mar 2014
#53
That's exactly the kind of Idiocy we're dealing with here. Teabagger are Grade Triple AAA
Cha
Mar 2014
#58
please, tell me this is the onion, or mad magazine or some such shit, please??????
spanone
Mar 2014
#60