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Women, Men And Competition - Online Essays

Women, Men And Competition

Loudly and often, women insist they don't like competition, and that
competition is an act of aggression. Ironically, however, competition as
aggression is inevitable in a society where men must compete for the attention
of women. Women encourage this. Every time they passively wait for men to take
the initiative, or reject nurturing men in deference to domineering men, they
sustain the dynamic of dominance. Ignoring this, pop-feminists contend
competition is the capitalization of aggression, and men do it to the detriment
of all.
Does this mean fighting for domination is the only way to compete? That
competition is solely a product of masculine socialization and something we can
do ...

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of competition in a free market.
It respects the rights of others, and everybody wins because it works through
validation rather than domination.
Competition as validation is the process by which the efficacy of ideas,
knowledge, and products is validated by consumers. They choose what they value
most. To the extent our economy encourages winning through validation, it works.
Most women, however, encourage competition through domination by ignoring
cooperative, nurturing men to give their love and sex to domineering, "virile"
men. What's more, women compete, and they compete to win. This is especially
evident in women's response to the invention of the rubber condom.
Prior to the 1870's, prostitution in Europe was prevalent. Victorian
ladies' distaste for sex encouraged "an explosive increase in prostitution" that
caused "an epidemic spread of venereal disease, and a morbid taste for
masochism." Then, women began to compete sexually, and prostitution had to go.
They began to ...

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