10-27-2006, 10:21 AM
Never heard of such a stereotype:
Anyways, imho some women think that they're less self-important than men due to the fact of covering it very well, including from themselves. Women almost always pretend, mostly unconsiously, to seem very soft and sweet :-) There's usually more room for self-humiliation than for self-importance, but it's two sides of the same coin, you're still caring for your image-for-others.
Historical reasons.. Who knows. I think that they're natural, not historical. Nature originally made it so that women were beautiful and physically weak and men were obsessed with sex and strong (so that they could capture as many women as they wanted), in order to produce more people :-) Women's insightfulness and unconsious pretending has something to do with it, too. They need to fool men in order to keep them around while they're pregnant. And men were made dense in that field, in order to never know that they're being manipulated for the sake of kids. And whatever men like to do, be it hunting or science, all of that they do for kids' comfort...
Such a universal stereotype that it seems offensive. But I think that nature 'planned' it to be so and never 'cared' for things like Spirit, only for reproduction.
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Speaking of self-importance, it can be a useful tool sometimes, imho :-) I used to deny to myself things that it urged me to do, until there was almost nothing I wanted to do anymore. It made me very unhappy and uncaring. Now it turns out that you can give yourself an impulse to do something if you intentionally let a self-important thought in your head. It works so well, even when you know why you're doing it :-) To stick to the topic, that trick helps me to recapitulate when I don't want to.
the arrogance of men and the lack of sense of humour of womenSome of stereotypes probably depend on where you live.
Anyways, imho some women think that they're less self-important than men due to the fact of covering it very well, including from themselves. Women almost always pretend, mostly unconsiously, to seem very soft and sweet :-) There's usually more room for self-humiliation than for self-importance, but it's two sides of the same coin, you're still caring for your image-for-others.
Historical reasons.. Who knows. I think that they're natural, not historical. Nature originally made it so that women were beautiful and physically weak and men were obsessed with sex and strong (so that they could capture as many women as they wanted), in order to produce more people :-) Women's insightfulness and unconsious pretending has something to do with it, too. They need to fool men in order to keep them around while they're pregnant. And men were made dense in that field, in order to never know that they're being manipulated for the sake of kids. And whatever men like to do, be it hunting or science, all of that they do for kids' comfort...
Such a universal stereotype that it seems offensive. But I think that nature 'planned' it to be so and never 'cared' for things like Spirit, only for reproduction.
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Speaking of self-importance, it can be a useful tool sometimes, imho :-) I used to deny to myself things that it urged me to do, until there was almost nothing I wanted to do anymore. It made me very unhappy and uncaring. Now it turns out that you can give yourself an impulse to do something if you intentionally let a self-important thought in your head. It works so well, even when you know why you're doing it :-) To stick to the topic, that trick helps me to recapitulate when I don't want to.
This user is a merge of users with less than 5 posts or all posts in less than one week. Maybe the merged is more interesting than the original users.
Este usuario es una combinación de usuarios con menos de 5 mensajes o que escribió todo en menos de una semana. Quizá el usuario combinado resulte mas interesante que los usuarios originales.