"...think that men are more likely to be drawn in by the title!"
Thats the stereotype, which has merit but I think is kinda harmful to both genders, such as it leads to women feeling they need to downplay their sex drive, and men sometimes overstate their sex drive when in say, all male company. It also leads to men often getting accused of having alterior motives when doing things like being nice to a woman we just met.
I don't know much about specifics of neurochemistry on sex drive, and social learning is also a factor, but I believe men and women's sex drives are fairly comparable (at least in terms of say, a normal distribution), but that I think men may prefer more promiscuous sex, while women tend to prefer sex with partners they know and feel they trust (I'm generalising mind you, ie I fall into the later catagory). My mantra in gender issues is generally 'different, but comparable', ie we have slightly different behaviours, problems etc, but they all boil down to the same basic drives, desires, issues. Plus alot of difference is cultural.. but thats just my two cents.
re women getting equal pay... I find it hard to argue that without specifics, but the logic that; equal work = equal pay, is fair enough. However the issue of men being the primary breadwinner hasn't completely died out, and I'm not sure I want it to really...
- If both parents work and the children are raised latchkey style, this is bad for the children.
- If both parents don't work... no income
- This leaves some mixture of 'both work part time', 'one works fulltime, one works part time' or 'one works, one doesn't' being the main effective system for raising a family.
Also if we use the 'both parents work' approach, and this becomes norm, than that just leads to the cost of living rising to essentially require 2 full time jobs worth of income... nobody wins. My personal preference would be some balance of both parents working part time, which considering there was a big drive in Australia for more (white) babies, leading ot the baby bonus ($1000 AU per kid), they could've achieved the same effect by simply taking that money and making the system more user friendly for people trying to raise families (ie in terms of flexible hours). Also I get the initial logic of men work, women raise kids (ie men are stronger and alot of work was manual labour, education was expensive and really could only be given to select men etc), but most of those reasons no longer apply, and I think plenty of dads would want to spend more time with their kids (and the kids would likely be better for it).
re the trolls....... wierd
Thats the stereotype, which has merit but I think is kinda harmful to both genders, such as it leads to women feeling they need to downplay their sex drive, and men sometimes overstate their sex drive when in say, all male company. It also leads to men often getting accused of having alterior motives when doing things like being nice to a woman we just met.
I don't know much about specifics of neurochemistry on sex drive, and social learning is also a factor, but I believe men and women's sex drives are fairly comparable (at least in terms of say, a normal distribution), but that I think men may prefer more promiscuous sex, while women tend to prefer sex with partners they know and feel they trust (I'm generalising mind you, ie I fall into the later catagory). My mantra in gender issues is generally 'different, but comparable', ie we have slightly different behaviours, problems etc, but they all boil down to the same basic drives, desires, issues. Plus alot of difference is cultural.. but thats just my two cents.
re women getting equal pay... I find it hard to argue that without specifics, but the logic that; equal work = equal pay, is fair enough. However the issue of men being the primary breadwinner hasn't completely died out, and I'm not sure I want it to really...
- If both parents work and the children are raised latchkey style, this is bad for the children.
- If both parents don't work... no income
- This leaves some mixture of 'both work part time', 'one works fulltime, one works part time' or 'one works, one doesn't' being the main effective system for raising a family.
Also if we use the 'both parents work' approach, and this becomes norm, than that just leads to the cost of living rising to essentially require 2 full time jobs worth of income... nobody wins. My personal preference would be some balance of both parents working part time, which considering there was a big drive in Australia for more (white) babies, leading ot the baby bonus ($1000 AU per kid), they could've achieved the same effect by simply taking that money and making the system more user friendly for people trying to raise families (ie in terms of flexible hours). Also I get the initial logic of men work, women raise kids (ie men are stronger and alot of work was manual labour, education was expensive and really could only be given to select men etc), but most of those reasons no longer apply, and I think plenty of dads would want to spend more time with their kids (and the kids would likely be better for it).
re the trolls....... wierd