Originally Posted by
Harley's Dad
Wow, this thread has covered a wealth of "gender-ground"! As a mere man I feel well and truly outnumbered on this site - but of course I would be (new question: why do more females SH than males? Because they're more sensitive? More vulnerable (but if so who is out doing the H/G bit?)
Sensitive? Vulnerable? How about women deal with emotion differently? Women are also more likely to be diagnosed with illness, simply because they can suck it up and go see a doctor, whereas a man is more likely to lie in bed wanting to be waited upon simply because they've got a runny nose.
But surely men have a worthwhile role to play? We go fishing, shoot deer or grouse or geese or ducks and bring them back to warm the family hearth and to feed the families' bairns. What the hell more do you want?
Who has said that men didn't have a worthwhile role to play? Although I question how many men actively go and hunt these days, even in poorer countries. I don't need or want a man to 'provide' for me, I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself. A relationship is more than predefined tasks and chores.
But while women have to conceive and bear a child I really can't believe that after all the trauma of birth they just want to drop it and say to their man "OK, it's all yours now". Surely real life ain't like that. Had my wife said that to me I'd have been horrified - I had to get back to doing my hunter/gatherer thing in order to support them.
No one is "dropping" their child on the man... If/when a child is born I'd damn well expect my partner to be doing his equal share of looking after it. Women have to go do their earning of the bread as well these days, and you no doubt expect that they should come home, look after the child, the home and have your dinner on the table by the time you stroll in the door...
Tony, I really wish you'd stop using hyperbole (and twisting of words) in every discussion, it gets us nowhere, and all it achieves is getting people's backs up and getting further off topic.