I was not able to send a message in response to Melissa, but I do include the text. Her points were that women do ask men out; women are police officers; women do run businesses. None of this is in dispute. But what are the percentages? If women are 3% of the carpenters, does that look equal? But we can certainly find a female carpenter and say, "See, women are equal!"
I include the letter to Melissa.
You have thought a lot about the issue. We are constantly bombarded with propaganda about women and men, and our personal lives cross lines with the other gender hundreds of times a time. Some men and women, so I've heard, make legal pacts to stay together for a lifetime. Have you heard of the custom?
I thought I included statistics from Helen Fisher.
"Women are 95 percent of childcare and kindergarten teachers, nurses, secretaries, dieticians, dressmakers, bookkeepers, bank tellers, housekeepers, information clerks, and physical therapists.
"Men still do 95 percent of the manual labor (as if the above wasn’t manual labor) such as garbage collection, loading machine operators, well drillers, roofers, plasterers, bricklayers. Men are 96 percent of the car mechanics and 97 percent of carpenters, construction workers, and truckdrivers. Men are still the protectors (97 percent of firepeople, 90 percent of police). HELEN FISHER FIRST SEX
Of course, if men are 90% of police, then 10% are females. We can always find exceptions, but exceptions prove the rule. If any of Helen Fisher facts are wrong, let me know. The rest are just anecdotals, often used to promote a belief rather than to search for truth.
If you want an anecdotal, a woman who worked with me for TWO YEARS never asked me out and never mentioned her interest. Only after she left did someone tell me she wanted SO MUCH to go out with me, but I never ASKED. This is a woman who graduated from Harvard, and was on the NBC TODAY show, but she didn't have the honesty to ask me out! And the ratio, according to Warren Farrell, is 1 of 10 times a woman asks a man out first. So my anecdotal case SUPPORTS the statistics, rather than pretends the statistics are really questionable surveys.
As far as kids on the playground being teased, it is reprehensible, but overall, boys are suffering far more than girls, from birth to death. One example was the case of Carla Faye Tucker in Texas, on death row. The Pope intervened on her behalf, the first execution of a WOMAN in 130 years in Texas. Do you know how many men were executed in those years, with no appeal from the Pope?
Women are so privileged, and yet so arrogant. It's stunning that the privileged group complains the loudest! Yes, there is gender bias: heavily against men, partially against women.
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