Salomé
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I don't care about men being weak. I care about weak men disowning their behavioural problems.ptgatsby said:It doesn't change that women have power over men because of 'their weakness', even if they don't use it. One has to have more interest than the other for it to be real influence, so no matter what interpersonal control you talk about, one is going to be 'weaker'.
It'd be like saying that because men are, on average, stronger... it's not men that had physical control over women, it was women being weak. (This should be stripped of any connotation of beating etc. I just can't think of a better physical analogy between men and women right now.) The concept of interpersonal power is always going to be a gap issue - money, sex, relationships, class...
No not really the same thing at all.
A man wants a car. Does the car have power over the man?
Physical strength is a useful, static attribute. Is it isn't contingent on anything else (notwithstanding the laws of physics).
Sexual attraction is contingent on the interplay of hormones. What actually controls behaviour is the individual's own biochemical makeup.
This is a VERY important point relative to the rest of my comments.