So you believe a male is better suited to become a leader of a certain country because he is willing to take pain for the sake of dominance, while a female is to do the same for love?
You seem to have a fetish for habitually neglecting the context of my posts
*. The quote followed a question specifically directed at Keltoi which asked, "
What do you think about this quote". If you want to see what I believe by all means take a look at the arguments I have provided in my article Muslim Women: Concept of Equality. Scientific research has clearly established a distinction between men and women physiologically and psychologically. From the article:
Ansar Al-'Adl said:
Concerning the pyschological differences between men and women, an article entitled Men and Women Really Do Think Differently quotes a recent neurological study:
Psychology professor Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine led the research along with colleagues from the University of New Mexico. Their findings show that in general, men have nearly 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence compared with women, whereas women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence compared to men. [...]In human brains, gray matter represents information processing centers, whereas white matter works to network these processing centers.
The results from this study may help explain why men and women excel at different types of tasks, said co-author and neuropsychologist Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico. For example, men tend to do better with tasks requiring more localized processing, such as mathematics, Jung said, while women are better at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions of the brain, which aids language skills. (SOURCE)
Another article published in Psychology Today describes the differences between men and women as 'insecapable':
When it comes to speaking and making hand movements that contribute to motor skill, the brain seems to be very focally organized in women compared with men. This may relate to the fact that girls generally speak earlier, articulate better and also have better fine motor control of the hands. Also, a larger proportion of women than men are right-handed, and unequivocally so. But when it comes to certain, more-abstract tasks, such as defining words, women's brains are more diffusely organized than men's, although men and women don't differ in overall vocabulary ability.
[...]Neuropsychologist Marian Diamond of the University of California at Berkeley, comparing cortical thickness in male and female rats, did find that the right cortex is thicker in males at most ages, while the left cortex is thicker in females but only at some ages (see "A Love Affair with the brain," Psychology Today, November 1984). [...]The fact seems inescapable that men and women do differ genetically, physiologically and in many important ways psychologically. (SOURCE)
Modern psychological research continues to unveil differences in men and women from the most obvious in behavioural patterns to those as trivial as picking out an angry face in in a crowd. In light of such manifest differences between the two genders, it is unsuitable for men and women to assume identical roles. As mentioned in a NY times article on Women's helath:
In contrast to the feminist premise that women can do anything men can do, science is demonstrating that women can do some things better, that they have many biological and cognitive advantages over men. Then again, there are some things that women don't do as well. (SOURCE)
God created us with different but complementary strengths and capabilities. A man does not need to become a woman nor vice versa in order to be successful.
Now with regard to the quote I posted, you write:
If by this you intend that the statement is logically incoherent, you will have to substantiate such a claim. The fact that it speaks of general trends does not make it logically incoherent or the entire field of psychology could be classified as such.
that is a generalization in its self, although you accuse people of making generalizations.
Let us try to maintain at least
some degree of accuracy here. I told wilberhum, "
Making generalizations only prompts genarlizations in response". This was my comment on his statement, "
I wonder how many stats I could gather showing that men are more violent than women. But then you already know that." As such, it was a disclaimer for the subsequent generalization I provided.
All males are not alpha males who wish to dominate, and all females are not nurturing parents who love children.
Since no one here has been making absolute claims, you're attacking a strawman. The argument is not that all females are unsuitable for such leaderships roles or that all males are suitable for such leadership roles. Rather, the argument is that the inherent psychological and physiological differences in men and women account for a much greater portion of the traditional roles assumed, as opposed to gender discrimination or cultural conditioning. I don't think anyone claims that gender discrimination accounts for ratios of 3993:19 business executives (Fortune). And as for cultural conditioning, it is only that - cultural. Thus, had such traditional roles of male leadership been only the result of culture, we would not have expected such roles to transcend all cultural boundaries.
A female is just a suitable to lead a country as a male is
Of course, there are such possibility. But they do not negate the norm which is substantiated psychologically, historically and most of all - intuitively.
Peace!
There are different types of feminist lets not forget that. Again I dont really agree with them, over the top and silly.
