>I don't think either men or women are more violent than the other sex -
>how one behaves in a given situation mostly comes from one's cultural
>background. There is no ground to say that women are or have been less
>violent than men are.
Not sure that's entirely the case. I think you pretty much _can_ argue that
men have been more violent throughout history than women, and continue to be
so now. The important question is _why?_ For instance, war. Men have
pretty much done almost all of the fighting in all of the wars in human
history, uping their gender's violence quotient substantially, but that may
be because only men have had the opportunity to fight.
>Now, before you kill me with flaming, mail bombs and all the kind, please
>read on.
Your opinions are hardly deserving of flames, Sander. Mine would be more
likely to draw such a reaction than yours, actually -- a hint of nature over
nurture is seldom a popular position in my crowd ;)
>Yes, I agree that women commit much less violent (and also
>non-violent crimes if I'm not too mistaken). To understand my point you
>should look a bit at the history and/or think a bit real hard. There
>*have been* and there are occasions where the women start and cause the
>violence, especialy if fanatical religiousness is also involved. And the
>groups that girls form/formed in girls only schools are not at all much
>different from the ones boys form - in all of them, violence, punishments
>when one has in some manner broken the rules, insulted the leader, etc.,
>etc., are not that different - behind *us all* is the same human nature. :)
Hm, yes, I expect the same general nature is behind us all. And undoubtedly
women can be and often are violent -- no question about that. So, you think
the gender differences in criminal behavior and entertainment tastes are
_entirely_ culturally imposed? Very possibly they are. No way to know for
sure. I am not convinced.
>There is a thing called female wad for Doom - the image of the "hero" is
>that of a female - at least so the discription says, I haven't checked it
>out myself. It should be available on most big mirror sites where Id
>stuff is kept. At least I saw i on src.doc.ic.ac.uk (that is -
>ftp://src....uk). Which shows there are some women around enjoying it
>enough...
... or men playing with female characters. Just having a heroine won't
necessarily make a game appeal to women players.
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Alex <ablock@facstaff.wisc.edu>
My father is not a bad man. He is only a weak one. And he only did
what so many men do: he divided women into groups, although in his case
it was not the body-and-soul dichotomy of the madonna and the whore but
the intellectual twins, the woman of the mind and the one of the heart.