Feminists

Yes cultures are like fashions.
They change & can BE changed.
But they didn't come out of nowhere.

There were certain traits of humanity that were promoted for any given reason (live in a mountain area, sturdy legs; live in flat plains with high grass, height).
And then that group devises a cultural code out of these particular trait trying to reproduce them.
Those who adhere to the traits are rewarded, those who don't adhere are demoted.
It then becomes tradition & that's how culture spreads.

Feminine is attracted to Masculine.
Masculine is attracted to Feminine.

Gender roles may be artificial but gender isn't.

Amanda Todd NEVER deserved to be harassed by her schoolmates.
Amanda Todd NEVER deserved to be assaulted & attacked physically by them.
Amanda Todd NEVER deserved to be blackmailed by an internet stalker.
Amanda Todd WAS NOT supposed to die & SHOULDN'T have felt she should die.

I'm angry at this death like you all are.
But I don't want to just dwell on my sadness & anger by itself.
I want to USE this anger to concoct a better solution so we don't have this crap happening anymore.

The case of Trayvon Martin.
When Geraldo said Trayvon shouldn't be wearing a hoodie in the rain, it was bullshit.
I can get mad all day long at George Zimmerman who did the deed & I have & will again.
I can get mad at the Sanford Police Dept. for their part in letting that man walk free for so long.

BUT let's look at the system that led to the incident & see if something can't be fixed there.
WHY was this guy allowed to continue to be Neighborhood Watch with his background?
Some knew him to be out of control & yet he was allowed to have this position.
The neighborhood watch code said he wasn't supposed to have a gun.
Why did he have a gun? And why wasn't that an immediate cause of suspicion when he was first encountered by Sanford PD?

I can sit here & try to say "People shouldn't be racist! They shouldn't stereotype people like that!"
And that's true but that doesn't solve the issue in the short term.
People have been preaching against racism forever & some people are just gonna refuse to change.
We gotta understand that racists are out here & when you have an unstable one like Zimmerman being put into a position of power, he's gonna take advantage of his position to play out his racist mentalities.

I don't like that girls get branded with Scarlet Letters over their sexuality. It's bullshit.
I can get mad all day at the kids who bullied Amanda Todd online & in person & I have.
I can get mad all day at the pervert who snapped pictures of her on webcam & then tried to blackmail her into posing for the cameras some more by threatening to expose the pics.
I'm mad enough to strangle guys like that!
In fact I wanna know if this sucker was charged & convicted with anything so he can't pull this shit again on another young girl.

BUT let's look at the system that led to the incident & see if something can't be fixed here.
Why is a 12 year old girl allowed such unfettered access to the internet in the first place?
Was this webcam thing done at her house or her friend's house?
Was she allowed to go online at will without supervision or did she sneak around her parents' back?
Did she receive any education about the dangers of the internet if she WAS allowed to go online?

Why is Web 2.0 so pervasive that one incident can follow a person no matter where they go?
Why aren't we concerned more about the current nature of the internet knowing that most kids have picture-taking, video-capturing internet-connected phones that can post on this Web 2.0 & spread info like a virus?
Why didn't the school intervene in the physical bullying from Amanda's classmates?
Why should a girl feel like she has to change schools because of the school's inept bully prevention policies?
What do you do about online bullying which may not happen on the school grounds?
Is the blackmailer behind bars? Is he charged with child pornography?
Is he still free victimizing other young girls who make the mistake of exposing themselves on webcam?

See I don't believe in anger without action.
But I also don't believe in unfocused action either.
I don't want people to say "Girls are being victimized on the internet! There should be a law that everyone's real name shows up online whereever they go!"
Sounds good but all that does is help bosses hold things against you for your political beliefs or your off-work actions or your familial relations.
Democratic Underground doesn't exist if everyone didn't have Anonymity to protect them from people who would use your non-harmful views & actions against you.
I don't want kneejerk dumb responses to tragedies like what led to the idiotic Three Strikes Law.
Like what led to locking away drug users like hardened criminals.
Like what led to Zero Tolerance policies that make no room for mercy.

Culture is changeable but biology is forever.
The details may change but the theme remains the same.
Cultures are just expressions of human nature.
And as hard as you may try you will never control how girls like to show off their looks to gain attention.
You will never control how boys like to show off their prowess to gain attention.

Alicia Keys dressed like a tomboy when she first came out.
Not long after she made it big here she goes dressed up all glamour girl style in dresses.
She felt she had to hide her femininity in the neighborhood she grew up in & now when she hit the big time she was free to go all girly-girly.
The details of how each culture expresses these things differ for sure. WIDELY differ in fact.
But the underlying reason stays exactly the same.

In a society that puts male over female, tomboy is more acceptable than sissy.
Some mothers would rather their girls not be tomboy but are TERRIFIED if their boys become sissies.
The double standard is not ONLY enforced by men.
When a man can walk into a job interview wearing a skirt & not calling it a kilt & get hired then that double standard will be defeated.

Young girls having sex are called sluts, young boys having sex are called studs.
35 year old women who have not had sex are said to be waiting for the right one.
35 year old men who have not had sex are called weirdos or gay.

But why is it like this?
Biology.
Think about it.
An Extinction Level Event where only 11 people remain on Earth.
In the first scenario you have 10 men & 1 woman.
In the second scenario you have 10 women & 1 man.
They have to repopulate the Earth with these 11 people.

First scenario the 1 woman has sex with the 10 men to make a baby.
Nine months later she has the baby & now there are 12 people on Planet Earth.
Maybe she has twins, triplets, quadruplets & so on.
If so there would be 13, 14, 15 people on Earth.
Minimum 1 extra human being every 9 months.

Second scenario the 1 man has sex with the 10 women to make a baby.
Nine months later the women each have their babies & now there are 21 people on Planet Earth.
Maybe they have twins, triplets, quadruplets & so on.
If so there would be 31, 41, 51 people on Earth.
Minimum 10 extra human beings every 9 months.

Look at how this pattern looks from both scenarios:
1st scenario (10 men, 1 woman): 11 ~ 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
2nd scenario (10 women, 1 man): 11 ~ 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 91

This made men more expendable since they can drop sperm very easily to spark life.
They send men to wars & dangerous pursuits since the world doesn't need as many men to reboot life.
This made women more protected since carrying a baby to birth is very hard to spark life.
They say women & children first on ships since the world needs many women to reboot life.

Still don't think there's a biological underline to cultural practices?

Yet they want healthy well-adjusted children to populate the world so they look down on young women having babies before they're ready to take care of them.
The woman brings the child into the world. The woman nurses the child from her breast.
This is why so many cultures control female sexuality.
This is why governments will ALWAYS be trying to steer how human beings reproduce with marriage laws & such (see replacement rate).
This is why some people freak out about gays & lesbians & such because they think that will lead to a domino effect of less children.
This is why people feared women in the workplace because they believed it takes away from men having positions to play the provider role set by society & steers women away from a life of motherhood & family.

And because of the biological reason of menopause, women only have a certain amount of time to have a healthy baby.

At work, women ask me if I want any kids. I have no kids right now.
I told them I have my whole life to have kids.
I told them my paternal grandfather, my daddy's daddy, was born in 1897!
My dad was born in the 1940s!
There's a documented world record of a 90 year old man in India having a baby by his much younger wife.
Tony Randall from the Odd Couple had a child with his younger wife at the age of 77!
Men are made differently & have different attitudes towards life than women.
When women ask me about having a baby, they're talking from their biological perspective.
They have a time limit. Thus their approach to mating is totally different from men's.
Men don't have a time limit outside of death. Thus their approach to mating is totally different from women's.
Men's method of creating life is different than women's method of creating life.
Men drop seed & go. Lickety split. Women carry that seed for 9 months with it transforming their body tremendously & go through great pains delivering it. LONG TIME.

Biology influences identity which influences culture which influences lifeviews.
Environment of the natural kind, of the social kind add extra influence to those biologies, identities, cultures & lifeviews.

Can we influence our cultures? Sure. It happens all the time. It's happening right now.
But understand that these things come from biology at the root.
Even racism has a biological component. 'Us vs. Them' is also a survival trait.
John Lucas