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then OVER TIME if this trend is consistent the population will become OVERWHELMINGLY female. It has nothing to do with whether or not most people think this is a good ides.
all the same things being posted before many times except that the people posting them were all female.
Since men are more turned on by more women than women are by men women are more likely to find men boring than the other way around. The dynamics of conversations among only males or only females are obviously 2 for a total of 3 different subjects.
males have to prove that they are better than all other men and they also have to prove that they can provide a wide variety of services and resources to women that women can't provide for themselves if they ever want to have sex. This fact and the biological and social adaptions to it lead to among other things men tending to dominate conversations if no one stops them.
to TCF.
relationships both with the parents or potential parents of their children and with other women so they will have the greatest possible assistance with raising their kids.
speak for yourself dude, seriously this is usually and maybe always at best a half truth. If you aren't gay (or bi enough to make do in a pinch) your dick WON'T get hard, in other words this is a form of denial. Doesn't mean you HAVE to use it or you SHOULD use it, or that there isn't some genuinely conflicting emotion surrounding the question of it's use, but you DO want to.
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and because they are more instinctively equipped and motivated as well as, secondarily, more practiced, they tend to be better at it.
big mistake to go there I think (probably you aren't meaning it literally, but it has been meant that way in the past and some probably still would like it to).
if it HAD worked they would have run with it. They will be trying anything and everything from now until the election to see what sticks.
it MAY be possible to produce eggs without a female, though this hasn't been demonstrated yet unlike the case with producing sperm without a male which has, and incubate them in an artificial womb without producing insane people, though this obviously has also not been demonstrated, but the question remains: how many straight men would WANT to be parents without the involvement of women? we KNOW lots of women want to be parents without men if the men aren't performing to their liking and if they can afford it.
It's not conditioning, or not only that, it is innate. Men HAVE to prove themselves if they want to have sex, women HAVE to have people who will help them raise their kids. It's both absurd and contrary to a mountain of evidence to believe that these facts haven't influenced the biological evolution of people.
but everyone wants to respond to the reality and spin the responses of others in the way that they think is most to their advantage, so the only way to address the issue is to deal with gender openly.
ok everyone should, and some men may be lacking in this department, but it sounds like it is being suggested that men are particularly lacking in this area compared to "others". This seems like a bizzare suggestion. O yeah, since men have ALL the power they should have a sense of humor about EVERYTHING, and since women have NONE, they can't be expected to have one about anything. Actually due to competitive reasons men tend to have a sense of humor about men generally.
This is exactly the point: men are far more likely than women to openly maintain and act on an interest in women who don't want them than women are to do the same with men, this makes men "stupid", since the men want the women more than the women want the men it also makes the women "hot".
were it not for the fact that doing so would conflict with important cultural and political agendas.
are you going to complain because they voted wrong before
if that were not the case no progress, or indeed meaningful movement of any kind, would be possible in any field of intellectual endeavor.
but relying on looks alone is not a socially acceptable strategy for men so it follows that actions whose only purpose is to make one look better are publicly compromising for men in a way that they are not for women.
is it because we are supposed to "get beyond" the physical i.e sexual? is it because we are supposed to "get beyond" being attracted to smooth skin more than wrinkled skin? nobody questions it when people try to put off age related loss of mobility, age related loss of mental capacity, age related loss of bowel and bladder control, age related inability to metabolize glucose, etc. etc. so why should people find it strange that people wish to put off age related loss of sexual attractiveness/function (obviously you can't easily function in a meaningful sense if no one is attracted to you)for as long as possible.
the only problem, as the above poster indicates, with cosmetic surgery is that it doesn't work very well. Sooner or later there will be EFFECTIVE ways to counteract at least a lot of the effects of aging on the skin. One thing you can be sure of, this area of medical research will never lack funding.
does this mean that they think men and women should think and act alike?
since the only men enthusiasitic about marriage are gay and since most women seem to think that all the worlds problems are due to men "objectifying" women it seems likely that this knowledge will lead to a HIGHER rather than a lower gay population.