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How is it sexist when all the evidence shows men are more involved in violent acts than women? Can you please help me understand how this is sexist?

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@cubancigar

If my comment was sexist, yours seems to be as well, since you claim it is "women who are the root cause of evil."

At any rate I disagree that women cause men to be violent. As far as I know there may be many reasons to put a suicide vest on, or to drop in the middle of the desert with amos, but impressing women is not one of those. I really don't think men go to war because girls talk them into it directly or indirectly.

It is an evolutionary trait that will reflect in all sorts of places as the society becomes more complicated and then even more. Nobody had to worry about suicide bombers before someone thought of inventing bombs or religion or institutions to promote either one of those. And those institutions were not created with an end goal of suicide bombers, they were created with 'good' thought, ultimately to make the creator look more important and powerful. I hope you get the gist of my argument.

Regarding my comment being sexist - true. But one has to acknowledge the differences of sexes before aiming for equality.

Men wage war physically because they are physically stronger. Women wage psychological war. Women also prefer powerful men, forcing men to 'prove' themselves, ultimately chosing alphas.

Men are more involved, but women are at the root cause of violent acts. Most men are not violent and given time, violent men will be rooted out by brainy meeks. It is women who chose to copulate with violent men than the meek ones.

It is a very bad statement to say 'why men love war', and is only an insidious way of saying the patriarchal statement that 'loving war is manly'. To be expected in 1984, but not today.

"Women also prefer powerful men"

Are you sure that's what it is? From what I've heard time and time again it's confidence which is the most attractive quality in a personality, a clear sense of who they are and what they want. You can be confident without being violent.

Mark my word: powerful. Confidence comes from power. As we move from a largely physical domination to intellectual domination, the form power takes is also changing. So is the form of violence. It is not just true between men and women but in general.

A cave-man or a hunter (man) has only one meaning of powerful - physical. Today the meaning is changing, and Obama is powerful without having much body strength. Whether he is violent or not is something I will let you decide. But my point is that the anti-physical violence rhetoric one hears all day long is only a very recent phenomena and is directly related to what is considered more powerful today - war or politics.

NOTE: To people marking down my answers, what are your opinions about 'why women love cooking?' because statistically more women are found cooking than not, and 'why blacks like slavery?' because statistically more blacks were slaves than not? (HINT: Django Unchained anyone?)

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