By: Judith Ellis

Judith Ellis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:26:33 +0000

It is without doubt cultural as we know that there is no difference in the mental capacity of men and women. But what is also true is that men are more adapt at believing women when it comes to issues like raising children, for example. I wonder if this is altogether wise.
If there were more men taking active roles in the rearing of children across all racial, ethnic and cultural lines, we might see a difference in the balancing of children educationally and socially. The opinions of men are most important, the way in which women lead, equally as so.
Men I believe sometimes trust other men in that they perhaps try to strip the answer of emotionalism to get to the basis of the argument. This disregard is perhaps not purposeful, or mean-spirited.
Men perhaps may be fully aware that women (by nature or nuture) will often dominate conversations and households, being usually the more vocal ones if allowed but not necessarily the right one all the time, though her speech may clearly defy this. (I have had to check myself on more than one occassion.) Our allowance of this or that by this person or the other is always an issue in the long run. This is what I’m referring here.
These are just thoughts, though I think there is a grain of truth therein.

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