I'm not sure why you feel men are more logical and women inherently more emotional. Both have all the brain-based equipment for all functions; custom dictates which are acceptable to express publicly, and by whom. Unfortunately, the emotions men find it most acceptable to express seem to be rage, pride and contempt. I would suggest that Putin's decisions vis a vis Ukraine have a lot more to do with misplaced pride in Russian empire, rage at the fall of the USSR and contempt for the west than with any type of logic (which only emerges as a post hoc attempt to create an understandable explanation for his actions). Women in many societies are permitted more expression of the "softer" emotions, which unfortunately opens them to the aforementioned contempt of men (contempt which men perceive as logical rather than an emotional reaction). Expression of emotion does not prevent the operation of logic, however. When either gender doesn't recognize the influence of emotion on their thoughts, we have major political, social and familial issues.
REgarding pharmaceutical companies, there is of course plenty to criticize. They want to make profits, and they often do so by questionable marketing practices, eg repurposing products to mass markets (for example opiates). However, there are plenty of actual intractable diseases and problems in the world. I have yet to see any evidence that they are actually trying to perpetuate or delay solving these. I think, rather, that they are using expensive panaceas for soft targets in the richer countries - obesity, depression etc. - to allow them the slack to respond to real emergencies without going bankrupt.
Thank you. I make generalizations that I believe are valid, but gladly recognize exceptions. Let me take this opportunity to name women who are both extremely logical and effectively emotional at this juncture. Jessica Rose, Naomi Wolf, Stephanie Seneff, Cecilia Farber, Simone Gold, and some of you among my readers. We need the whole spectrum.
Women's pure emotion can be dangerous. I think of Greta Thunberg and Andrea Dvorkin. Men's flawed logic likewise - Putin and Bill Gates. Both bad and dangerous, but different.
As I write this a crying 5-year-old is hanging on my shoulder wanting consolation. Girls are different. Vive la difference.
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Their refusal to admit that Ivermectin works better against Covid than any of the mRNA vaccines is enough for me to say that Big Pharma is evil and trying to perpetuate Covid. No question about it in my mind. The most recent studies suggest Ivermectin is 62% effective on its own. The “cocktails” are even better. No vaccine approaches that.
I purchased Ivermectin from India at an exorbitant price just to be sure. I have never been injected nor fallen ill with covid. When two people stayed with me for the weekend and subsequently tested positive I took it for a few days but was unscathed so am saving it for another rainy day. A friend, same advanced age, a lifetime adherent of natural foods etc, rushed to get the needle as she wished to visit her very old mother in England. The sad irony was that she was not able to get there in time and when she flew to England later to finalise her mother's affairs she was sick with covid, probably acquired before leaving. I talked to her last week and mentioned Ivermectin and she said 'what's that?' Total abrogation of responsibility to do any deeper research when the mind is made up.
PS Graham to a specific cases, my own, I have always had zero interest in maths and physics but as to world affairs, history has always been my number one fascination. Does that count as world affairs?
I guess I am the “man” at my house, because my husband doesn’t want to critically think about any world events AT ALL. I can’t talk about Covid jabs, politics, religious heresy … basically anything that actually interests or concerns me. It’s beyond frustrating.
I sympathize. That's the opposite of the usual state of affairs, and I think we men handle it more easily because we find it more natural. Is this sexist of me to say? I'm writing a review of a book by an ardent feminist entitled Women After All in which the author enumerates women's considerable good features, but does not list awareness of world events among them.
My firstborn son was had little interest in world affairs. In anything at all, for that matter. A profound case of "failure to launch." But my second son, and most men I know, seem to be. Our evolved role is to be the external face of the family. As such we need to be aware of what's going on.
Glad you have that interest, and I hope you are able in partnership to raise successful children.
I enjoy your writing Graham but sometimes get weary of being part of half the human race which seem to be prone to being summarized as 'women' when there are so many exceptions to these generalizations just as there are for 'men' or any other large grouping of diverse people. Couldn't we just get on and stop trying to categorize in such unwieldy groups. Sure women are emotional. So are men. So are people. Maybe even dogs.
Isha, you have given me a topic for tomorrow and at least the next day. First is what drives me - what am I on earth to do? Second is a summary of all the books I have reviewed over the past two decades on relations between the sexes. Looking at old ones I find that I have always been asking questions about our dying out, both as a gene pool and a culture.
I appreciate the prod. It will delay my review of Women After All, but it will provide a background for my very lengthy review of a not-so-exceptional book. I welcome reasoned argument. You may want to read that, and/or Ashley Montague's "The Natural Superiority of Women" (free on Internet Archive) in order to rebut me.
I was reading this book, in turn, in preparation for expanding on my theme in my video The Evolution of What Women Want. Not many people share my point of view, and I expect people will disagree.
Dear Graham, glad to be of service! I will try to get on to that book but still working through the reading list Linh Dinh gave me to do with Jewishness! And it is summer down here in Australia when one wants to be outside in the garden whenever cool enough.
Linh has a great deal to say on that subject. I have reviewed Kevin MacDonald's trilogy; posted this one A People that Shall Dwell Alone on my blog. You might call them as well a people that spill a great deal of ink writing about others but hate to be themselves the topic of discussion.
Why is this important? Why do I make these points?
I observe that the white race, and much of the human race, is dying out because we are not having children. I have been writing about it for two decades. Not only has nobody attempted to convince me I'm wrong, nobody has even acknowledged the question.
My assessment of the situation is that the position of women in society has shifted dramatically over the past couple of centuries. Society's agenda, leading to depopulation, is driven by women.
I'll turn the question around. Do you agree about depopulation? If so, what role do women play in it? Is it a healthy turn of events? If not, what is likely to reverse the trend? And, in the context of these questions, are the temperamental differences between the sexes an irrelevant question, or merely an uncomfortable one?
IMHO, Graham is struggling to understand his relations. To puzzle out the past while appreciating his future. Often reflective. At 82, I'm resigned to accept my inability to resolve some similar issues. I am now quite out of any proper comment lane in my reply, I hope I've not overstepped.
The dynamics of male-female pairings are beyond rationalizations. We might ask "what is love?". As an engineer, my study of philosophy has been too narrow.
"all sorts of related stuff [math]" - Eddie. At his age I enjoyed some simple books about the History of Mathematics. I tried to recall some titles of age appropriate ones but, alas, my memory fails me. I always found great beauty in the topic and the effort to create a logical, consistent system.
I'm not sure why you feel men are more logical and women inherently more emotional. Both have all the brain-based equipment for all functions; custom dictates which are acceptable to express publicly, and by whom. Unfortunately, the emotions men find it most acceptable to express seem to be rage, pride and contempt. I would suggest that Putin's decisions vis a vis Ukraine have a lot more to do with misplaced pride in Russian empire, rage at the fall of the USSR and contempt for the west than with any type of logic (which only emerges as a post hoc attempt to create an understandable explanation for his actions). Women in many societies are permitted more expression of the "softer" emotions, which unfortunately opens them to the aforementioned contempt of men (contempt which men perceive as logical rather than an emotional reaction). Expression of emotion does not prevent the operation of logic, however. When either gender doesn't recognize the influence of emotion on their thoughts, we have major political, social and familial issues.
REgarding pharmaceutical companies, there is of course plenty to criticize. They want to make profits, and they often do so by questionable marketing practices, eg repurposing products to mass markets (for example opiates). However, there are plenty of actual intractable diseases and problems in the world. I have yet to see any evidence that they are actually trying to perpetuate or delay solving these. I think, rather, that they are using expensive panaceas for soft targets in the richer countries - obesity, depression etc. - to allow them the slack to respond to real emergencies without going bankrupt.
Thank you. I make generalizations that I believe are valid, but gladly recognize exceptions. Let me take this opportunity to name women who are both extremely logical and effectively emotional at this juncture. Jessica Rose, Naomi Wolf, Stephanie Seneff, Cecilia Farber, Simone Gold, and some of you among my readers. We need the whole spectrum.
Women's pure emotion can be dangerous. I think of Greta Thunberg and Andrea Dvorkin. Men's flawed logic likewise - Putin and Bill Gates. Both bad and dangerous, but different.
As I write this a crying 5-year-old is hanging on my shoulder wanting consolation. Girls are different. Vive la difference.
Their refusal to admit that Ivermectin works better against Covid than any of the mRNA vaccines is enough for me to say that Big Pharma is evil and trying to perpetuate Covid. No question about it in my mind. The most recent studies suggest Ivermectin is 62% effective on its own. The “cocktails” are even better. No vaccine approaches that.
I purchased Ivermectin from India at an exorbitant price just to be sure. I have never been injected nor fallen ill with covid. When two people stayed with me for the weekend and subsequently tested positive I took it for a few days but was unscathed so am saving it for another rainy day. A friend, same advanced age, a lifetime adherent of natural foods etc, rushed to get the needle as she wished to visit her very old mother in England. The sad irony was that she was not able to get there in time and when she flew to England later to finalise her mother's affairs she was sick with covid, probably acquired before leaving. I talked to her last week and mentioned Ivermectin and she said 'what's that?' Total abrogation of responsibility to do any deeper research when the mind is made up.
PS Graham to a specific cases, my own, I have always had zero interest in maths and physics but as to world affairs, history has always been my number one fascination. Does that count as world affairs?
Yes, of course.
I guess I am the “man” at my house, because my husband doesn’t want to critically think about any world events AT ALL. I can’t talk about Covid jabs, politics, religious heresy … basically anything that actually interests or concerns me. It’s beyond frustrating.
I sympathize. That's the opposite of the usual state of affairs, and I think we men handle it more easily because we find it more natural. Is this sexist of me to say? I'm writing a review of a book by an ardent feminist entitled Women After All in which the author enumerates women's considerable good features, but does not list awareness of world events among them.
My firstborn son was had little interest in world affairs. In anything at all, for that matter. A profound case of "failure to launch." But my second son, and most men I know, seem to be. Our evolved role is to be the external face of the family. As such we need to be aware of what's going on.
Glad you have that interest, and I hope you are able in partnership to raise successful children.
I enjoy your writing Graham but sometimes get weary of being part of half the human race which seem to be prone to being summarized as 'women' when there are so many exceptions to these generalizations just as there are for 'men' or any other large grouping of diverse people. Couldn't we just get on and stop trying to categorize in such unwieldy groups. Sure women are emotional. So are men. So are people. Maybe even dogs.
Isha, you have given me a topic for tomorrow and at least the next day. First is what drives me - what am I on earth to do? Second is a summary of all the books I have reviewed over the past two decades on relations between the sexes. Looking at old ones I find that I have always been asking questions about our dying out, both as a gene pool and a culture.
I appreciate the prod. It will delay my review of Women After All, but it will provide a background for my very lengthy review of a not-so-exceptional book. I welcome reasoned argument. You may want to read that, and/or Ashley Montague's "The Natural Superiority of Women" (free on Internet Archive) in order to rebut me.
I was reading this book, in turn, in preparation for expanding on my theme in my video The Evolution of What Women Want. Not many people share my point of view, and I expect people will disagree.
https://rumble.com/v273xjn-the-evolution-of-what-women-want.html
Dear Graham, glad to be of service! I will try to get on to that book but still working through the reading list Linh Dinh gave me to do with Jewishness! And it is summer down here in Australia when one wants to be outside in the garden whenever cool enough.
Linh has a great deal to say on that subject. I have reviewed Kevin MacDonald's trilogy; posted this one A People that Shall Dwell Alone on my blog. You might call them as well a people that spill a great deal of ink writing about others but hate to be themselves the topic of discussion.
https://grahamseibert.substack.com/p/review-of-a-people-that-shall-dwell
Why is this important? Why do I make these points?
I observe that the white race, and much of the human race, is dying out because we are not having children. I have been writing about it for two decades. Not only has nobody attempted to convince me I'm wrong, nobody has even acknowledged the question.
My assessment of the situation is that the position of women in society has shifted dramatically over the past couple of centuries. Society's agenda, leading to depopulation, is driven by women.
I'll turn the question around. Do you agree about depopulation? If so, what role do women play in it? Is it a healthy turn of events? If not, what is likely to reverse the trend? And, in the context of these questions, are the temperamental differences between the sexes an irrelevant question, or merely an uncomfortable one?
IMHO, Graham is struggling to understand his relations. To puzzle out the past while appreciating his future. Often reflective. At 82, I'm resigned to accept my inability to resolve some similar issues. I am now quite out of any proper comment lane in my reply, I hope I've not overstepped.
The dynamics of male-female pairings are beyond rationalizations. We might ask "what is love?". As an engineer, my study of philosophy has been too narrow.
"all sorts of related stuff [math]" - Eddie. At his age I enjoyed some simple books about the History of Mathematics. I tried to recall some titles of age appropriate ones but, alas, my memory fails me. I always found great beauty in the topic and the effort to create a logical, consistent system.