Indeed, and in the modern world it's entirely necessary for women to possess those traits. Evolutionarily it was absolutely necessary for the males to possess those traits, and as a species we are still hide-bound by our evolutionary past. It's only really been within the past few decades that it's become vital for women to hold their own in the workplace because of the collapse of a stable economy; gone are the days where a man could support a family -- nowadays it's one salary, one adultDarryl wrote:A competent and female Sherlock Holmes is not impossible. Nor a female Spock. Then again, I see no reason at all why crfriend's attributes should not be applied to both male and female, aside from gender-related roles: father/mother, and family roles: brother, sister, cousin, father, mother, aunt, uncle, grand-parent...family elders; then perhaps community-related roles, work-related roles, &c.
However, with that in mind, evolutionarily, women typically "spoke to" the softer side of the scale. This does not diminish what it means to be a human being, but rather to evolutionary roles of the sexes (and, in this sense, we can dispense with "gender"). Men "spoke to" the harder side of the matter because if they screwed up badly enough they'd wind up dead -- hence the absolute need to be able to think and adapt extremely quickly. Note that this does NOT make one sex "superior" or "inferior" to the other.
The major beef I have with (what tries to pass for) modern society is that it has masculinity and machismo confused, and, as I've alluded to, this may be by (nefarious?) design.
Let's have a short look at machismo as a bullet list:
- Bravado
- Aggressiveness
- Insensitivity
- Sexist attitude
- Bellicoseness
Why is society pushing this warped notion of masculinity on men? Why? Why is it pushing it on women?
... wanders off to the fridge to hunt down a brew and slay it...Perhaps time to prime the pump with a wee draft.....