It seems the many men who posted defensive responses for their violence by citing "women are violent too" cant read.
Scroll up to my explanation that male violence is NOT an inherent genetic trait, it is patriarchal socializing that holds men to lower standards than women. This is why men DO commit most violence.
Also, all women have been immersed for 5,000 years in a globally violent society (created by patriarchal men) and SOME take on its sick characteristics. This does not change the fact that men commit most violence and that two wrongs dont make a right.
Testosteone poisoning is a cop out and a myth since men are also rational beings who can CHOOSEwhen to be violent. IF, as many man claim, men cant control their tempers, then they WOULD be unfit to rule.
Nean@derthal wrote "WARFARE IS AS NATURAL AS AGRICULTURE." and seems to argue in defense of men being violent and for violence being a human trait shared by women—which is isnt.
Again, this was proven by thousands of hunter gatherer tribes and early Goddess societies where men did NOT wage war for 1,500 years as I posted earlier.
For proof of the inherent kindness of men before being violently socialized, read "The Lost World of the Kalahari" by Laurens Van der Post who lived with the bushmen who did not wage war for TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS, and
"The Chalice and the Blade" by Riane Eisler, and
"Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Europe" by Marija Gimbutas.
Violenct is NOT an inherent human trait, it was started by tribes of herdsmen in ancient Siberia and what is now the MId East. The herdsman culture lives on today, in the cowboy worship in the US and bull fighting in Spain (Man over Nature) blah blah etc.
Re: Men who batter women are terrorists
Date Edited: 23 Jan 2005 05:00:31 AM
Scroll up to my explanation that male violence is NOT an inherent genetic trait, it is patriarchal socializing that holds men to lower standards than women. This is why men DO commit most violence.
Also, all women have been immersed for 5,000 years in a globally violent society (created by patriarchal men) and SOME take on its sick characteristics. This does not change the fact that men commit most violence and that two wrongs dont make a right.
Testosteone poisoning is a cop out and a myth since men are also rational beings who can CHOOSEwhen to be violent. IF, as many man claim, men cant control their tempers, then they WOULD be unfit to rule.
Nean@derthal wrote "WARFARE IS AS NATURAL AS AGRICULTURE." and seems to argue in defense of men being violent and for violence being a human trait shared by women—which is isnt.
Again, this was proven by thousands of hunter gatherer tribes and early Goddess societies where men did NOT wage war for 1,500 years as I posted earlier.
For proof of the inherent kindness of men before being violently socialized, read "The Lost World of the Kalahari" by Laurens Van der Post who lived with the bushmen who did not wage war for TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS, and
"The Chalice and the Blade" by Riane Eisler, and
"Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Europe" by Marija Gimbutas.
Violenct is NOT an inherent human trait, it was started by tribes of herdsmen in ancient Siberia and what is now the MId East. The herdsman culture lives on today, in the cowboy worship in the US and bull fighting in Spain (Man over Nature) blah blah etc.
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