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John David Truly's avatar

An apt current illustration is the question of male-female wannabes playing in women’s sports. They are demonstrably out of place and physically dangerous in face-to-face competition. Women have every right to fear such nonsense. Only the foolish would ignore the danger.

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Valerie's avatar

This is true and obvious to anyone paying attention. Men and women are wired differently, and it benefits humanity for it to be so. All these people out there right now embracing weird things trying desperately to be different....are still the same deep down.

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Jennifer McDermott's avatar

Neuroticism also leads a woman to choose a mate that will contribute to the genetic survival of the species.

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David Murdock's avatar

I always wondered why there was never a man named Prudence. While a man most often considers the risks of jumping off a cliff while falling through the air, a woman can give you fifty-seven reasons for not jumping...in alphabetical order. They might just be the reason humanity still exists!

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Richard Kuykendall's avatar

I posit that neurosis among both women and men is on the downswing. How else to explain how many parents, whether single or married, have so little regard or anxiety for the safety of their children in a world fraught with more dangers than an occasional saber-toothed tiger, marauding mastodon, or sword-swinging Viking warrior? Of course, there are other factors at work, such as media narcolepsy and the increasing extremes in the pursuit of self-gratification, but neurosis ought to trump them. It seems not to.

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Stephen Russell's avatar

Maybe its the way God made them?

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SueB's avatar

This is an easy one. Why? HORMONES. Or rather hormone fluctuations.

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