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Phil · 01-01-2007, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Well fortunately for you, the argument that 'scholastic men have historically feared women and their power' (X-ray vision, perhaps?) is not in fact a negative, and you should be able to show evidence if there is any. If there is not any, it does not mean "you can't prove a negative," it means your premise is bullshit.

prove it.

DanaC · 01-01-2007, 01:05 PM

I wonder if these were the same scholastic men that came up with the idea that women reading too much would burn out their brains? Or that it simply wasn't sensible to allow women to be involved in politics, medicine or science, because their natural temperament precluded reason?

Phil · 01-01-2007, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

I wonder if these were the same scholastic men that came up with the idea that women reading too much would burn out their brains? Or that it simply wasn't sensible to allow women to be involved in politics, medicine or science, because their natural temperament precluded reason?

hmm ... we could let you rule everything every 3 weeks or so with a week off?! :p

DanaC · 01-01-2007, 01:26 PM

*grins*

richlevy · 01-01-2007, 04:38 PM

I just watched "The DaVinci Code" last night. It was peppered with some interesting historical tidbits, especially the "war on women" in the 2nd millenium. It even includes a discussion of the Malleus Maleficarum, a sort of "Idiots Guide to Witch Hunting".

From Wikipedia

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Part of this section explains why women, by their weaker nature and inferior intellect, were supposedly naturally more prone to the lure of Satan than men. The book title itself contains the word maleficarum, the female form of the noun, and the writers (incorrectly) declare that the word femina (woman) is a derivation of fe+minus, faithless.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-02-2007, 01:48 AM

Since the surviving evidence for even early Paleolithic, let alone any preceding hominid time, is a few rough cobble tools not far removed from natural rock fracture anyway, and that there is no trace of such complex, 20th-century social thought or theory -- id est, nothing to read -- I suspect the conclusion about their social mores is drawn from the air, not the science.

DanaC · 01-02-2007, 05:50 AM

Umm.....2nd millenium isn't paleolithic. Plenty of written sources from the 2nd millenium. Or are you talking about something else?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-02-2007, 11:41 AM

When you have two distinct groups, there will be competition for power.
When the difference between the two is, one has weapons and the other has boobs, the weapons rule.
Fortunately the boobs have enough power to keep the weapons from getting completely out of hand.
And so it goes.

Urbane Guerrilla · 01-05-2007, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Umm.....2nd millenium isn't paleolithic. Plenty of written sources from the 2nd millenium. Or are you talking about something else?

I am; the early Paleolithic -- maybe two million BC.

DanaC · 01-02-2007, 11:46 AM

What if one group has weapons and boobs?

Phil · 01-02-2007, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

What if one group has weapons and boobs?

masturbation!

xoxoxoBruce · 01-02-2007, 12:45 PM

Naw, Pink Pistols.

DanaC · 01-02-2007, 06:09 PM

lol

JayMcGee · 01-02-2007, 06:13 PM

*bites tongue*

xoxoxoBruce · 01-02-2007, 07:01 PM

Pussy. :p

01-02-2007, 01:48 AM	#6
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01-02-2007, 11:41 AM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	When you have two distinct groups, there will be competition for power. When the difference between the two is, one has weapons and the other has boobs, the weapons rule. Fortunately the boobs have enough power to keep the weapons from getting completely out of hand. And so it goes. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-02-2007, 12:45 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Naw, Pink Pistols. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-02-2007, 06:13 PM	#14
JayMcGee Cardigan-wearing man Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Much Binding In The Marsh Posts: 1,082	bites tongue __________________ I like wearing cardigans...... my current favourite is an orange cable-knit with real leatherette buttons.

01-02-2007, 07:01 PM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Pussy. :p __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-01-2007, 01:05 PM	#2
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I wonder if these were the same scholastic men that came up with the idea that women reading too much would burn out their brains? Or that it simply wasn't sensible to allow women to be involved in politics, medicine or science, because their natural temperament precluded reason?

01-01-2007, 01:26 PM	#4
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	grins

01-02-2007, 05:50 AM	#7
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Umm.....2nd millenium isn't paleolithic. Plenty of written sources from the 2nd millenium. Or are you talking about something else?

01-02-2007, 11:46 AM	#10
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	What if one group has weapons and boobs?

01-02-2007, 06:09 PM	#13
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	lol

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