@hue-man,
hue-man;66736 wrote:I don't know if I agree with everything you say, but I do wonder why women don't seem to be attracted to philosophy. I hear that women in colleges are very attracted to philosophy majors, but very little of them seem to practice the discipline. I think it's because of the fact that professional philosophy is so logical. I think that women usually use the side of the brain that's responsible for emotion, and that side of the brain is opposite of the side that's responsible for logic. Both sides interpret emotion, but the right side deals with how something feels, while the left side deals with why something feels a certain way. It may also be a socio-psychological issue, where women don't feel like they belong in philosophy because there are so many males in the discipline and so little females. There was also a time when women weren't allowed to be professional philosophers.
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i have been around a lot of women in my life and i rarely am able to talk to them. i find men much more interested in the subjects that i am. but i find a lot more variety in what men talk about. for instance, i can go on and on about music to a man-or about philosophy-or about carpentry-and i am not only talking, he is talking also and happy to be heard. i am being honest, i am sorry if the ladies get offended. i am not saying this makes men good and women bad.
i know there are no female philosophers of any distinction-or race car drivers or masters the likes of the religious traditions in the east. i have asked why and no one else seemed to have noticed...no female prophets.
i have admitted to women being masters at deception-they dont want to claim it as a skill, and dont want to admit that it has its place in life. deception is a tool and a dangerous one-it too should be respected, used sparingly only in extreme circumstances and never misused.
i have also mentioned that a woman's great gift is to be able to love others and put them before her own life. i am guessing that is because we bear and care for the young.
i have seen women in the business world who are much more ruthless than men but they fail always because of their emotions, which they are unable to see through. always means every one i know in my personal experience-i am sure somewhere in the world there is a top exec who is a woman and can set her emotions aside.
i have said this before to people from time to time in my life and no one seems to think it particularly earthshaking. but it was the thing that really rocked my boat and made me realize the power women have over men. a man can rape a woman-but a woman can totally erase a man's feeling of manhood, can psychologically castrate him. she can rob him of his identity. women complain that a man 'objectifies' them. the advertising goons can put out all the stupid commercials for hondas with a babe sitting half clothed on it but i do not feel it has any reflection on me or what they think of me. but a man has very little defense when a woman attacks his image of himself on a personal basis.
both men and women have hormones that work like chemicals in the brain, and if we dont see that and learn to overcome it we act like fools. it gets easier to manage the older we get...one of the boons of getting old.
i have this sad picture of the world, where the man and woman are fighting with each other because they dont understand each other, and the man goes out of the house into the world and starts a war. and the woman is at home beating the child, who will grow up just as dysfunctional.
what a pity we dont have a crying smilie....