Are All Women Sexist?

Now then, that I have your attention.

I've noticed a most frustrating attitude among some members of the female community that seems to come down to "I/my female bretheren am better than the entire male sex." I won't say it's all of you, but it's enough women (and in enough posts) that one could begin to see a pattern.

So what say you Women? Are you Sexist? Is it just a small minority among you? Is it just a maturity thing, that as women mature they grow wisdom and see men as no longer the enemy?

Why so many angry, bitter feelings towards a whole sex? Are we, the men on this site, to believe that just because a handful of men may have done you wrong that the entire sex has done you wrong, included those whom have never met you?

Discuss.

I stand by my previous posts, but would like to add that if provoked by a misogynistic man I can give the impression of being sexist. By this I mean that I seem to get a little pleasure out of winding them up with sexist comments, but there is actually nothing behind these they are a pure wind up for no other reason than I know I can and I believe their views/comments are so pathetic! I just can't stop myself :))

Was this still a topic for discussion in 2008? 

Everyone knows about primary and secondary sex characteristics.  Men and women are also different in temperament and emotional makeup.  Start with the essentials of producing the next generation and go from there to what T&E characteristics would most likely lead to one's genes appearing in that next generation and you can predict all the basics of how we differ.

You need rape and pillage, Ponzi schemes, maybe a bridge built or a city founded, nuclear power or nuclear bombs or a vaccine or salad shooter invented, call a man.  If you're looking for getting the next generation from birth to adulthood in at least a semi-civilized manner, talk to a woman.  Sure, some members of each sex will do fine with the other role, both have a part in the other side's jobs, those who prefer the other side should do accordingly, but on average we're second best when switched.

None of that makes either sex 'sexist' by nature, but a combination of unfavorable temperament, lack of knowledge, lack of wisdom (which none of us have when young), and bad luck can lead to experiences that teach an incorrect lesson about the opposite sex. And wrong learning leads to more wrong learning -- what we 'know' is often self-fulfilling. 

Nature isn't terribly concerned with the post-reproduction (including child rearing) details -- like happiness, successful long-term relationships, and such. Aggressive jerks who father a few kids and women unwise or unlucky enough to fall for them but able to get the kids raised somehow, have both done their part to assure that those basic traits will be seen in the next generation.  

(That does not mean 'like father, like son.'  It means that being a jerk is partly inheritable, so one does better to avoid them for breeding purposes.)

Individual actions are moral or they're not, wise, or otherwise (and so on) but nature's hand (or God's if you like) has no obvious preference.  Look at every other species and you'll find equivalents of every part of human nature except the reference to rules outside of instinct and individual learning -- that is, morality. 

How can we blame a sex for being what it is? No individual created it.

"Could we but grasp this sorry scheme of things entire/would we not shatter it and then/remold it nearer to the heart's desire?"

Probably we would -- but we'd make it worse rather than better.  The problem and the challenge is right there in the mirror.  Blaming whole natural groups (the opposite sex ...) is a distraction and a waste of time.  Even blaming one group for blaming another ("are all women sexist?") is an utter waste. 

We all know the rules -- those Commandments will do as well as any other form. Love yourself as you do others, and act accordingly. Group averages don't matter as long as you try to deserve the best, seek what you deserve, and reject the others.

I wandered in here because this appears to be the only place on the net where there's a reference to education as a woman's "jewel in the apron pocket."  Google's like a box of chocolates -- you never know what you'll get.  Why yes, I am married -- very happily, as it turns out.  Sometimes I'm amazed by that.

*peeks in wondering if hk is back, realizes it's just a long dead zombie coming back to haunt the lounge*