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The basic diff between men and women at an existential, meaning-of-life level might be this: The challenge for women is to figure out how to live a _good_ life. The challenge for men is to figure out how to live a _necessary_ life. Solving for quality vs solving for necessity.
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What makes you think there needs to be a difference at an existential level, that runs along male/female gender lines? Aren’t you sidelining the individual in favour of the stereotype; and in so doing, failing also to account for all those with non-traditional gender identities?
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I have no opinion on “need” in a normative sense. I think there *is* one based on my anecdotal observations. I don’t have enough data to speculate about nonbinary individuals.
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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
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Evolutionarily men are more inclined to risk taking while women are more inclined to long term thinking (e.g. long term well being of children). If we assume that for our ancestors “necessity” involved risk this hypothesis would make sense.
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isn't it solving for quantity vs solving for quality? even as there can be females at quality and males at quantity. managing quantity is feminine, managing quality is masculine.