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Politics : Polite Political Discussion- is it Possible? An Experiment.
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (1243)9/1/2006 7:44:02 AM
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All of those changes resulted and will continue to result in changes to human behaviour. We have not been limited to evolutionary change since we started controlling fire. Ever since then, the pacesetter has been the brain and invention, not evolutionary biology.

In particular, I'd contend that mass education and contraception have changed the roles of the sexes - allowing women much more chance to contend with men with equal starting information, and not being continually pregnant (and also, not dying so much younger having been exhausted by childbirth and rearing).

Also, electricity and mechanisation remove many of the 'brute force' superiorities men had had over women. A woman with a gun is as effective with a man, and I'd suspect in defence of her children could be more likely to use it...

It's not a pick and choose of modernity. I don't believe you think every change is OK as long as it leaves women inferior and subservient?
If you want to live in the modern world, you accept that brain is increasingly valued over brawn, as the former works around the latter. And that makes men and women by and large equal, as we move past the limitations of nature.
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