It's NOT in our nature, it's in our nurture. We were raised to do it, and so we do it. History however has proven us somewhat... bastardly.
And to answer this.. anyone who answers yes is foolish. My friend got headbutted in the face by a fat bitch the other day, so that pretty much is a definitive no.
We do it for women. A king would probably have a hard time getting any pussy from his queen if he let his country be invaded because he was a pacifist. The invading king would probably not get any action either if the invasion failed and his country's economic base was floundering. It's all for pussy. Remember, nice guys finish last. Women LIKE assholes.
No way. My friends have three kids. And the oldest is a girl. She'll shove, hit, pull, throw stuff at, and generally abuse her little brother all the time. She does it more when she's tired, cranky, feeling spoiled, or generaly feeling like more of an ass hole than usual. How many little kids do you usually spend time with?
Posted this in another thread and it is even more appropriate here: Here is just a bit of data on the subject. The numbers vary depending on the study, but they all indicate a serious problem. * 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978) * 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988) * 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992) * California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate. Vincent Schiraldi, Executive Director, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, "What Hallinan's Victory Means," San Francisco Chronicle (12/28/95). A Michigan study has found that "boat or refugee children" living at or below the poverty level outperform American children in the classroom. [EWING95] A similar study in Pennsylvania found that "poor, intact families performed better academically than financially well-to-do children from single-parent households." [EWING95] Violent crime rates, teen suicide, teen pregnancies and low academic performance are all high in single-parent households. Poor, intact families have higher academic achievement rates than do rich, single-parent families. "'Exposure to single motherhood at some point during adolescence increases the risk [of a daughter's later becoming a single mother] by nearly [150 percent] for whites and.....by about 100 percent for blacks.'" Sara S. McLanahan, "Family Structure and Dependency: Reality Transitions to Female Household Headship," Demography 25, Feb., 1988, 1-16. Cited in Amneus, The Garbage Generation, page 240 A recent study for the journal Criminology has revealed that "neighborhoods with larger portions of adults who are less 'invested' in marriage and residential stability are more likely to see higher rates of assault by African-American males." Analysis of the data reveals that "the proportion of residents without married couples...maintains the strongest relationship with intimate assault rates for African-Americans..." This leads to the conclusion that "lower levels of marital commitments and stable residents constitute...significant barriers to the development of social capital [an important determinant of healthy community life] among minorities." Woodredge, J. and Thistlethwaite, A. (2003) Neighborhood structure and race-specific rates of intimate assault. Criminology, v41. Retrieved from The Family in America, April 2004. Fatherless youth at higher risk for jail - study SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two-parent families, according to a new study released Thursday. Cynthia Harper of the University of Pennsylvania and Sara S. McLanahan of Princeton University tracked a sample of 6,000 males aged 14-22 from 1979-93. They found that those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated -- even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant. Surprisingly, those boys who grow up with a step-father in the home were at even higher risk for incarceration, roughly three times that of children who remain with both of their natural parents, according to a study being presented at a meeting of the American Sociological Association Friday. ``Remarriage of parents doesn't help,'' Harper said. ``A step-parent in the household doesn't erase the father absent problem.'' The sociologists launched their study in an effort to shed new light on the increase of youth violence between the late 1980's and early 1990's. ``It has become a lot less unusual for youth to become involved in violent crime,'' Harper said. ``I wanted to see if there was any connection between youth violence and major family changes that have occurred over the last few decades.'' Overall, the U.S. youth crime rate rose by 43 percent between 1989 and 1993. Since then, however, the youth violent crime rate dropped by about 25 percent, according to Justice Department figures. Officials have credited the drop, which mirrored a wider drop in overall crime rates, in part to new community policing initiatives and tougher penalties for youth crime. Still, juveniles accounted for nearly one out of five arrests for violent crimes in 1996. And youths aged 12 to 17 were three times as likely as adults to be victims of a violent crime in 1994, Justice Department figures show. Incarceration can lead to further crime, according to specialists. A 1997 study at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, found that juveniles who went to jail were twice as likely to commit another crime than those who were sent to a alternative programs. The study of 271 at-risk youths also found that the juveniles sent to jail were three times more likely to commit a violent crime than those sent to other programs. Harper and McLanahan's study found that young men whose parents part ways during their adolescence were roughly 1-1/2 times as likely to end up in jail as children from intact families -- faring slightly better than boys who are born to single mothers. It also found that, while whites have lower rates of father absenteeism than blacks, when families do split white youth are at a higher risk of incarceration than their black peers. Child support payments did not appear to make a significant difference in the odds of incarceration, but the presence of live-in grandparents in households without fathers ``appears to help improve youths' chances of avoiding incarceration,'' the study found. McLanahan and Sandefur conclude that children raised by only one biological parent have more problems in school, in the work force, and in avoiding teen pregnancy than children raised by both biological parents no matter what the parents' race, education, or marital status is. * 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. * 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. [Center for Disease Control] * 80% of rapist motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes. [Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14 p. 403-26] * 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. [National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools] * 70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes [U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept., 1988] * 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. [Fulton County Georgia Jail Populations and Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992] Children from fatherless homes are: · 4.6 times more likely to commit suicide, · 6.6 times to become teenaged mothers (if they are girls, of course), · 24.3 times more likely to run away, · 15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders, · 6.3 times more likely to be in a state-operated institutions, · 10.8 times more likely to commit rape, · 6.6 times more likely to drop out of school, 15.3 times more likely to end up in prison while a teenager WHAT HAPPENS TO CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF THEIR NATURAL FATHERS Compared to children in male-headed traditional families where their natural parents are married to each other, children living in female-headed single-parent, lesbian or other environments where they are deprived of their natural fathers are: 1. Eight times more likely to go to prison. 2. Five times more likely to commit suicide. 3. Twenty times more likely to have behavioral problems. 4. Twenty times more likely to become rapists. 5. 32 times more likely to run away. 6. Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances. 7. Nine times more likely to drop out of high school. 8. 33 times more likely to be seriously abused. 9. 73 times more likely to be fatally abused. 10. One-tenth as likely to get A's in school. 11. On average have a 44% higher mortality rate. 12. On average have a 72% lower standard of living. Source: "The Garbage Generation" by Daniel Amneus Ph.D. It is posted in HTML format at http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/damneus/garbgen.htm
...Really? What about Banobos(sp?) and lions? The females do most if not all of the hunting. Rape is part of human nature but the number of rapes we are expiriencing anually in the U.S. today is NOT natural and is bred into us by a hypermsculine culture that pushes both us and women to extremes. Women are naturally nowhere near as dainty as we have bred them. Over years of killing strong women scientists are actually finding we have weeded out some of the stronger women unnaturally. We cannot simply excuse this deadly phenomenon by saying it's natural. In egalitarian matriarchal societies there is very little rape. I point to the records we have of Crete.
I agree. I bet the dinosaurs never had wars or sex. I mean... can you actually picture two dinosaurs having sex??? It's absolutely ridiculous!
The X-Files agrees with you on that one, actually. I'm not massively anti-feminist or anything, but I seriously have a problem with the idea that, if women were in charge, things would be different. There's virtually no evidence to go on, and what little that there is doesn't exactly back it up.
There's heaps of evidence, actually, and it's called the UK. Heaps of people are still among the underclass because of Thatcherism. Then again, that's probably not because she's a woman and more because she's that kind of politician. I think anyone with heaps of power is fully capable of ruining lives.
all you ever have to do is work in an office full of nothing but women and you'll see how entirely stupid the whole concept of "peaceful women" is. it's a joke, and sometimes it's fun to razz the guys with it, but we women are a harsh, territorial, backstabbing lot. just like the men.
probably. though, somethin that's happened to me frequently on these forums is that people frequently think i'm a man because i'm pushy and combative. then they see my picture and i'm once again reduced to mere bitch.
I won't try and defend Thatcher here of all places, although I would say that we get the politicians we deserve. I'm not saying there's no evidence, and there have been plenty of female politicians who have done a good job - Benazir Bhutto, the woman in charge of Indonesia whose name I can never remember (Megawatti something?). But the evidence certainly doesn't point to them being inherently better, and the sample is too small to even really say if they're statistically better. But as you say, anyone with heaps of power is capable of ruining lives, and more often than not, the only way to get into power is to be a complete shit - again, whether you're male or female.