All: Do men and women need each other beyond purposes of reproduction?

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It's probably an old-fashioned view that itself is harmful, not homosexuality. What I said maybe doesn't sound very kind, but I'm asking from genuine curiosity.

I suppose my larger point is about the need humans have for each other beyond reproduction, or about the purpose of being a human being when having children appears to be what humans are supposed to do. When looking at reality as plainly as it appears, it seems like biologically that is what our purpose is.

But I like that you bring up the ways that plants and animals have non-reproducing members, and somehow that all fits into the natural order of things.

You're almost certainly right though that I should probably be spending more time learning from more academic sources rather than fiction.

[–]MarkTwainiac 13 insightful - 5 fun13 insightful - 4 fun14 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Fleurista, I don't say this to be mean, but it's really become apparent to me that even though you "identify as" a woman and claim you "live as" a woman, you really have no idea about the reality of the vast majority of girls' & women's lives, particularly outside the contemporary West and but also for many within the West even today. Initially, I thought it was just that you were uninformed about female biology and the vast array of physical differences between male & female human bodies that go beyond the reproductive systems and the implications & consequences of all these differences. But it seems you also have little sense of what girls & women experience through our lives in the context of male-dominated, male-centric, male-supremacist human societies, families, clans/tribes, religious traditions, legal systems, economies, power structures, political movements, forms of government and so on.

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You're probably right. I grew up rather sheltered and my worldview is probably small. I'm ignorant of a lot of things, so it would be quite fitting for me to be ignorant of that, too, which I obviously am.