25/07/04

Women And Children

Women are better at recalling everything from faces and gestures to hairstyles and jewellery after a brief conversation.

LOL!

This is another example showing how far more like children are women than men.

As children get older their brains tend to focus more on the abstract and less on the physical immediacy of their surroundings.

Children also have far better memories for what is immediately apparent to them than they will have later on as adults.

In other words, characteristics that are more prevalent in children than in adults are also more prevalent in women than in men.

Unsurprisingly.

And, laughably (or, perhaps, not so laughably given that so-called academic researchers are terrified of upsetting women) it is argued that this 'ability' to be able to recall more accurately such superficial trivia has something to do with empathy!

A more ludicrous idea is pretty hard to imagine.

Experts say it may be because empathy is mainly a female trait - and picking up on physical characteristics enables women to better understand and interact with people.

But anyone with half a brain would know that empathy has precious little to do with recalling what people are wearing.

What seems far more likely - and far more consistent with other evidence - is that women tend to attend to - and to be influenced by - how things look, rather than what they are.

And when your missus points out the unusual tie that the news presenter on the TV is wearing while he explains in graphic detail -  accompanied by pictures - the carnage from something awful like a bomb explosion, take it from me, she is not empathising with anybody.

That no-good hussy is simply being sidetracked and disoriented by some pretty colours and something to do with clothes.

It is like dangling a ball of string in front of a kitten, candy in front of a toddler, or a loaf of fresh bread in front of a starving family.

If it looks pretty, sparkles a great deal, or it looks as if it might suit her, then she will not be able to take her eyes of it.

Furthermore, if women are so damn good at empathising, then why are they not the greatest and most popular artists, musicians, composers, poets, writers, sculptors, song-writers, playwrights - and goodness knows what else?

Well. I will tell you why without even charging you a fee.

It is because women are not good at empathising at all in comparison to men.

What they are good at is pretending that they are good at empathising and attacking with great venom those who dare to suggest otherwise - such as so-called academic researchers.

Women are manipulators, they are not empathisers.

(Statistically speaking, and compared to men, of course!)

Indeed, it is precisely because men are so good at empathising compared to these scheming ne'erdowells that men bend over backwards to give women a hand up in life while the women themselves make no attempt at all to reciprocate any of the favours but, instead, grab all the goodies.

+ Women Are Children Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, they are big children all their life long--a kind of intermediate stage between the child and the full-grown man, who is man in the strict sense of the word. Arthur Schopenhauer - writing about 150 years ago - 20 min - not the easiest of reads - especially the second half of the text.

A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen. And then, too, in the case of woman, it is only reason of a sort - very niggard in its dimensions. That is why women remain children their whole life long; never seeing anything but what is quite close to them, cleaving to the present moment, taking appearance for reality, and preferring trifles to matters of the first importance.

They are dependent, not upon strength, but upon craft; and hence their instinctive capacity for cunning, and their ineradicable tendency to say what is not true. For as lions are provided with claws and teeth, and elephants and boars with tusks, bulls with horns, and cuttle fish with its clouds of inky fluid, so Nature has equipped woman, for her defence and protection, with the arts of dissimulation. (deceitfulness)

Empowering Women Through AIDS! When historians reflect on the global battle against the HIV epidemic, one possible bright spot could be women's empowerment in the developing world, specialists say. link now defunct

Ah yes.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

And this is why beating women on a daily basis would empower them!

Yes it would!

Because on the strength of a good beating, government agencies can get more funding for all their women's programs.

So. When you get home tonight, you should do the right thing and empower your very own woman. And this, in turn, will empower all other women.

And what could possibly be more noble?

A good starting technique for beginners is to slap your woman around a bit with a dirty dish cloth every time that she opens her mouth; even if only to breathe.

When she is finally silenced, pull her nipples sharply until she squeals for mercy and admits that you made a big mistake in choosing her.

If she does not seem sufficiently convincing, bundle her out of the house and into the back garden and then start slapping her legs with the water hose.

Make her yelp loudly for a minute or two.

Or, if you prefer, for half an hour.

If this does not seem to have empowered her enough, make her eat a few mouthfuls of dirt and worms before forcing her to open the door of the shed with her teeth, and then get her to mow the lawn without her knickers on while you drink a cup of tea and shout instructions.

Follow up with a hearty round or two of some particularly heinous forms of sexual abuse and then polish off with a good and thorough spanking.

You can then get her to massage you rudely while you relax in a nice hot bath content in the knowledge that you have done your bit to empower women.

And you can also satisfy yourself with the comforting thought that the feminists might even give you a medal one day for your most chivalrous efforts in supporting their cause!