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JO | 22 hours ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My point is related more from a theological point of view in which certain behaviors we have come from our “fallen nature” through original sin. We all have this tendency to manipulate and control, regardless of gender, but that doesn't mean it was meant to be this way (I can see these differences mainly in children from good and bad families). But if I consider that only “fallen nature” exists, then surely we are all inclined to evil and I would agree with you. 

My issue with this topic is more related to the labeling of the other. Enclosing the other in a concept that generates separation, dispute, resentment, etc., which often makes it impossible to have good relationships and transform our personality, growing in virtues.

But it could be that I'm really retarded to believe in that 😅
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ToxicFemininity | 21 hours ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Not regardless of gender but BECAUSE of gender.

Women are physically weak so they utilize verbal and emotional skills.

So sure, we’re not all this way but it is inherently in us much more than men.
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TLFult | 20 hours ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Men and women are not created equal, and should not be treated as such. This "progression" towards "equality" is the 16th AMD's human capital stock fighting the 17th AMD's mob-rule cultural warfare over rights and benefits from our massive, oppressive, corrupt, one-size-fits-all socialist New Deal, and its Great Society of money-pit middlemen bureaucrats with domain over our bodies, legislating over every aspect of our lives, giving us so much to 'vote' about, in such an absurdly antisocial society, violently divided into riotous and insurrectionist tribal lobbies. We should celebrate our differences. Instead we've emasculated the labor market, and demeaned the homemaker. Who has herded women into the human capital stockyards? "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" (Margaret Thatcher), and the socialists need everybody toiling away, each generation working for less-and-less, while "progressive" politicians keep raising the ceiling over our heads, on a house of cards that will inevitably come crashing down on us, or "our Children," in our Federal Reserve's debt-driven, charge-it-forward ponzi economy. How "progressive." Our sense of community has been displaced by bureaucracy, and these days everybody is some type of toxic -ist.

This is not to suggest that there were no flaws in our founding, certainly the American Experiment had its share of those. Women could not own land, had to give their earnings to their husbands, limited education opportunities and job market... all blatant and undeniable human rights violations. And they were all fixed without bureaucracy. They were all resolved by movements of The People, rallying around an idea who's time had come. Like unions fighting for better workers rights, like the 8-hour workday and 40-hour workweek, during the first industrial revolution in the early 1800s, nearly a century before we had a Department of Labor. "I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!" —Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.

"Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians who have patronized this species of government have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would at the same time be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, opinions, and passions." —James Madison, 1787.