loveshogun said:
A group of these men speak from the heart and offer a collective apology, on behalf of their gender, for past abuses of men against women.
Wait. Isn't it "prejudice" to think there are some general traits for groups that make them groups? This line here goes even further. It actually says there is guilt that passes from one individual in the group to another, even when he hasn't even done anything. Even when the first individual was born and lived long ago, I still carry the guilt for whatever he did.
Is it the same for women? In that case every person in the world should get the death penalty.
And another thing: why aren't we ever allowed to say anything about the good things men do? Of course men commit more crimes than women. Men do EVERYTHING more than women. Women are average in every measurable mental field, like IQ, linguistic ability, mathematical ability, and so on. Men are more spread up and down the scale. That means there are more men who are idiots, but also more men who are geniuses. That means the best writers, doctors, engineers, musicians, inventors, managers and leaders will always be mostly men.
The species does what serves its survival. If a tribe or people hadn't done so, it would have lost out in the competition to those who did. If men took the high positions there was evolutionary sense in doing so.
That doesn't mean that deserving women haven't been allowed up there. Maybe not all the deserving ones - the instinct that makes us recognize men as the best leaders could shut out some worthy women, the application of instinct isn't always perfect. But it happens. Cleopatra, Boudica, Victoria, Elizabeth. Yes, during the "past abuses of men by women," men named the most successful era in the most successful empire
the Victorian Era. They worshipped a female leader, Queen Victoria.
And before that a nation followed Joan of Arc to victory in Europe's longest war.
If they didn't put more female generals in place in that war, it wasn't because of "sexism." They would have done it if it had helped them win. They didn't follow more female leaders, because Joan of Arc was an exception that they acknowledged, but aside from her men made the best generals.
