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[–]chrysthefeminist 13 insightful - 7 fun13 insightful - 6 fun14 insightful - 7 fun -  (1 child)

Our bodies are built to nurture and the instinct to protect the young seems to be built into our genes.

I'm female and after a lifetime of exposure to males and their attitudes I'd rather flush male young down a toilet than "protect" them.

[–]BEB 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm by no means saying that ALL females feel that way, it's just that in my experience on average women do tend to be very protective of their young, more so than men, and I think that only part (a very large part) of that is socialization.

We all have very different experiences of life, so I can only speak from mine. I've traveled a lot (again, for an American) and seen the same thing in the parts of the world I've been. I can't think of any place I didn't see it, but I haven't been close to everywhere - I've missed entire continents.

And not to say that I didn't meet a lot of feisty and fierce women, I did. And not to say I don't think women aren't capable of leading a revolution, they have and will. It's just seems harder to motivate women to stand up for themselves than to stand up for others. And again, that's my experience, others will have different ones.