Sorry about the mix up. Hasperis, I'm with you. Training anyone to cultivate dependence on others is corrosive and a disservice. And I applaud the self-determrination of life and overcoming obstacles wherever found. That said, I think there is an inherent "radar" which comes with growing up female, which possibly gets tuned down or off by the Y chromosome, or its concomitant equipment, which tends to make women empathic and by extension capable of compassion and skills that require it more than men. But I cannot say with any certainty where the line for such talents is between cultural bias or training and genetic structure. I do not think it is meaningless to grow with one or the other body type, especially given the strong tendency on this planet to identify people as their bodies. But for such facts to be turned into a class of constrasint on the individual is just sheer stupid in my book.

I do have one malke chauvinistic pigly-wiggly thought about all this though: I personally would hate to see women en masse turn their back on the nurturing and caring roles because they are so damn good at it!!! And I think it would be a real disservice to children and to the future to raise a generation under the charge of a bunch of androidal competitive pushy yuppie types, who have forgotten the imprtance of silence, affection, comfort, love, and other skills of the nurturing soul -- it is a priceless human ability that should not be "thrown out with the bathwater", for the sake of those who most need it, namely the very young.

Regards,

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