I accept that men and women are different due to the differences in their physical and mental "configurations". Men are generally stronger than women. Men think more linearly, and women think more intuitively. Those are just facts of biology.
Here's what I mean Walt. I'm an old-fashioned dame. If I could have afforded to stay at home with my son as he was growing up I would have done so in a heartbeat. I was never career-conscious. I liked being a mom and a wife. I was an employee by necessity not by choice. I think women generally are NURTURING. I think it is rare that a man is as nurturing as a woman. They have other fish to fry. I'm fine with how things used to be. Men go out and face the world and conquer it for their families. Women keep the home fires burning, raise the kids, make a wonderful place to come home to for their husbands. I know I'm gonna get slammed bigly for that but so what? Fortunately I was very lucky in the jobs I had and I had a talent for certain things that paid off very well financially. I was a single parent for lots of years so I worked. But given a choice? I never would have gone out into the world. I am not competitive at all. I don't need to succeed in the world of business to feel validated or important or worthy. Money was NEVER my carrot. My heart was always where my son was and due to necessity it wasn't with me during the workday. That's what I mean Walt. Thank you for your reply. Did I answer your question? I mean my kid was very advanced intellectually. In grammar school the teacher wanted him to go to the Museum of Science and Industry for a 6-week summer class and I had to decline because I couldn't afford to take that much time off work to take him there daily. In the 4th gr ade he was doing programming in an after-school MGM (mentally gifted minors) program. I still feel bad about that. I always will. He turned out just fine. He is Chair of his department (Computer and Information Sciences)at the University where he teaches. He loves what he does. But if I could have been more help to him when he was younger I would have been so much happier. :)
I accept to some extent. Though I would say we are mostly the same though the way we prioritize and express them is liable to be different. I think men in general act through personal power and individual or group achievement while I see us as drawing our strength more through family and community. I do not see men as being "stronger" except often just physically stronger. Men often go to pieces at just having to dal with what we naturally do every day! Nor do I think we are more "intuitive" whatever that means. I am not very intuitive. Whatever our natural differences or inclinations I don't see that as any reason not to go for what we want to go for. As long as we realize it may not come so easily for us. Whether it does or does not.
I accept it as fact! God made each gender not only with different bodies, but different inclinations as well. Women are more nurturing, while men are more "overseeing". This is what makes women "motherly" and men "fatherly". (generally speaking, of course)
Walt O'Reagun 