Vrondi wrote:
>
> I'll tell you that NO ONE OWNS ME!  or ever will.

If you get pregnant, your child will own you.

> If I heard a man refer to "owning" me, that would be
> it, I'd be GONE.

Good riddance.  A woman is much less attractive after
the honeymoon.

> And I know many of my fellow women feel the same way.

Good.

> In western culture at least, once upon a time, we used
> to have women as property, and we used to have slavery.
> Both were equally wrong.

Surely you jest.  Marriage and slavery EQUALLY wrong???

> We are people.  Most coupel I know either think of themsleves
> as "partners" or as "two become one"

How old are you darling? 12?

> MOST of the things you see as differences in men and women
> are cultural.

Incorrect.

> boy babies are more likely to die in infancy,

A cultural difference?

> and men have lower pain thresholds!

Of course.  Men don't have to endure childbirth.

> It is the assumptions that adults have that put these
> qualities into children.

Incorrect.  Most reputable studies show the opposite.

> Psychologist also say that the happiest most well rounded
> people are those who are mentally androgynous.

You're making this up, aren't you?

> You also don't know how many women think either,

Sure, most men don't understand women.  But most women don't
understand women either.

> This is not a trait mother nature imprinted on men or women

Oh, yes it is.

> Gender is what society puts in us, and is where all those
> things that women are "supposed to" do and feel come from.

Women have feelings.  Men have feelings.  These are internal and
personal.  They are not determined by society (although society
certainly has a role in how these feelings are expressed).

> Gender is all learned.

Nonsense.

> When you assume that just because you were taught people
> should be a certain way, that it is from nature or biology.

Actually it's from 100,000 years of natural selection.

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