Shelley and the GSD Underground Railroad #2 - Page 15

I am a 50ish female, and not equipped to fight anyone, but about a year ago I was walking with my teen daughter on the street, and heard a young man screaming at a woman his age.  He had her jacket in his fist.  I approached and asked her if she needed me to call the police, cell phone in hand.  He got pretty mad at me, saying, are you f'king kidding?  I said no, young man, I am not kidding at all, you cannot touch her.  He backed off and left.  If it had been night, or if I were alone on the street, I would have just called it in, and stayed a little further away.

My daughter was aghast, but I told her that I hoped someone would stand in for me if she ever needed help.  I also told her that my actions would help both young people that the boy's behavior was completely unacceptable, and that the girl did not have to put up with it.

All people should be treated with respect, women and men, but women pretty much never beat their men, men beat women, kids and dogs far too often.  Maybe because they can, maybe because they are inherently more physical.  I have taught my daughters to take off the first time a man tries to control her actions, her contacts, or life choices, these are the marks of a manipulative and potentially dangerous man, not a life partner.

Men and women are equal in all things, including evil deeds.
Yet we are very different and we should never try to overlook the difference.
Everyone trys to overlook these differences but you cannot.
I'm not sexist but men and women have different roles in life and this should never change.
Good for you Pheobe, I would have done the same, male or female one does not have the right to use force on another.


I hate this rain,

Moons.

There are differences, but the similarities far outweigh the differences.  As for roles, that is a life choice, and there is more then one path in life.  I think we can all appreciate that people, men and women, make different choices and we should respect those choices.  Men and women who make a life together need to discuss these things in advance of marriage, and certainly in advance of child rearing.  Sometimes people change their views as they grow up and gain new experiences.  

Personally I do think there are some differences in temperament but it is very hard to tell if that is inate, or socialization. I guess we would have to look at a wide range of cultures.  It is really not possible to know with certainty how any person, male or female, will respond to the birth of a child.  Some women are surprised by their desire to stay home, some by their desire to go back to work.  Some men suffer from leaving their baby every day as well, they are just more willing to admit it now.  In Sweden, many men stay home to care for their children.  They are just as male as American men, but the societies treat parental roles differently.

Historically, men led because they were stronger.  Men had all the higher level jobs, and many people thought women could not perform these jobs.  Times change fast.  When my sister (now about 65) was in medical school, she was one of only a handful of women in her class.  By the time I was in graduate school (at a medical center) just a few years later, nearly half the medical students were women.  This is not because of a wholesale change in the ability of women to practice medicine, but rather a change in societies view of that ability.

pheobe,
The difference is,
One knows nothing of the other.
Without being you could never know.
The fact is that's the way its supposed to be, the way nature intended.

I agree with what your saying, but thats not what I'm talking about.
Lets just call it a difference of instincts, the ones we don't remember but are still there.

It's the essence of life, one is not complete without the other.  
We are the same but in different ways.  
We do not think the same, we do not process the same, we have different priorities, different rules, different challenges to over come.

Trust me, we are different and will always be.

Moons.