I'm serious, no trolling here.
So your argument is that the entirety of the wage gap between men and women can be explained by women being stay at home moms?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%E2..._United_States
I misspoke (sorry, not a military person): instead of "branch" I meant "division" or "unit" or something. But women definitely can NOT do everything men can in the military:
http://www.military.com/special-oper...al-forces.html
So what if there was a mass clown-raping spree, and suddenly anyone with a red nose had to live in far more fear of being raped than everyone else; would it just be a "personal" issue for those clowns, or would it be a systemic clown problem?
EVERY woman is affected by rape, even if they are never themselves raped, because they have to live in fear of it. They are taught not to be alone at night, not to let themselves be alone with men, etc. It's like when police murder black people: they don't have to murder every black person to make black people start fearing the police.
And yet in societies where women are more equal the rape rate goes down, and in societies where women are less equal it goes up. Maybe it's NOT just an inherent, unavoidable thing, maybe it has to do with our societal gender roles.
How many barbies did you play with as a child? Children are
socialized in to their gender roles from a very early age: if you track babies eye movements, you will find they pay more attention to men in women's clothing or vice versa, because before they can even speak they've already learned gender roles.
I promise you, there was nothing out on the savanah when we were evolving that looked like GI Joe or Barbie
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So you don't think little girls practicing child rearing, dress up, baking, etc. while little boys practicing war, robots, etc. is going to have any effect whatsoever on how those two kids grow up? Really?
Then why do so many of them commit rape? There was a recent study done that asked "if you knew you would never get caught", would you A) "rape", and B) force a woman to have sex with you. Something like a third of the men answered yes to B), so clearly we as a society are teaching them something.