from a Natural History of Love
The purpose of ritual for men is to learn the rules of power and competition.... The purpose of ritual for women... is to learn how to make human connections. They are often more intimate and vulnerable with one another than they are with their men, and taking care of other women teaches them to take care of themselves. In these formal ways, men and women domesticate their emotional lives. But their strategies are different, their biological itineraries are different. His sperm needs to travel, her egg needs to settle down. It's astonishing that they survive happily at all.
Diane Ackerman
dont know if i agree
wow. that is such an illogical, as well as overgeneralized, identification of male and female. i'm sure many men feel as if they have a purpose to make "human connections," that are "intimate." i think that we do domesticate our emotional lives in many different facets....but. i dont know if our ways are biological.. hmm..iduno. sumthin to thinka bout i guess.
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