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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 516980, member: 6036"]My wife has some interest, but I doubt she would have become interested by herself. We just like doing things together. Kind of like our whitewater trips... she's not wired for Big Water, but she's willing to come along so we can be together.  No, Elaine. As Doug pointed out earlier, men and women are wired differently. We simply are not the same, regardless of how much coercion tries to insist we are. We aren't. There is no reason to believe that men and women will ever be equally interested in coin collecting, auto mechanics, or shopping for shoes. Men and women have dramatically different interests and tendencies, and this explains why some things are mostly women and other things are dominated by men. This contradicts the "oppression model" of victimhood, which needs an indecent burial. I'm an engineer. I've been told for almost 30 years that "women are taking over" the field. And yet, today, there are fewer female graduates of engineering schools than 10 years ago. From a high of 37%, women are now barely 25% and dropping. The same is true in business schools. A recent study of the top 20 MBA graduate schools in the country showed that every one of them was at least 2:1 men, and many were 3:1 men. Does anyone believe this has anything to do with a lack of opportunity for women in education ? Rubbish. The gender gap is widening, back to it's natural state. Women are less and less willing to be coerced into things they don't enjoy just to satisfy someone's ideology.  No, Elaine. Women have been 51% of the electorate for many more decades than any of us have been alive, and yet the vast majority of elected officials are men. That's not opinion, it's fact. Worldwide. Take a look at the next meeting of the UN Security Council. Almost all men. The UK had a female PM 25 years ago, and hasn't had another one since. Am I willing to vote for a female for president ? Yes. But very few people look to women for strength and protection, and I think subconsciously that's what we look for in the #1 leader. We tend to see heroism and strength as male attributes... because disproportionately they ARE male attributes. On September 11th, 327 rescue workers died so that others may live. 324 of them - more than 99% - were men. Fact. Sports is a classic example. There is no reason to believe women will ever be able to compete directly with men in most sports. 36 years ago, 29 year old Billie Jean King played Bobby Riggs : a washed-up has-been twice her age. The agenda-driven media made much of it, though it clearly had no legitimate sporting value. And yet, today, women do not compete directly with men in sports. The reason is obvious and irrefutable. As a group, men outperform women in sports. Why didn't Billie Jean King, the reigning Wimbledon champ, play the reiging Men's Wimbledon champ ? Why did she play a washed-up old hustler twice her age ? It 's obvious. She would have gotten blown away.  I am not financially controlled by a woman. I am not, and cannot be, controlled in any way by any woman. I would never associate with a "controlling" woman.[/QUOTE]

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