Blog about women..and stuff

Okay women, I have a couple questions for you as a gender race. These are things that got stirred up in my mind during the Socratic seminars and since I won't directly receive evil glares after saying this, I'll write them on here instead. First off, women. And yes I'm talking to just women. Why do some of you get offended when we refer to you as a group of people? Because you are your own group of people. There are very distinct physical differences between us. Just because we group you into your own sections for a lot of things doesn't mean that we are singling you out because you are lower than us. Think of all the equal ways we group men and women. Locker rooms, bathrooms, and dorms. Just by giving you your own dorm doesn't mean that the dorms are automatically worse than ours. (from the inside of some women restrooms id say that your bathrooms are actually nicer than ours). But there is still this strive for equality. And I know you're probably thinking 'Nelson, you dummy, we have different dorms bathrooms and locker rooms because you obviously can't have men and women getting naked together' and to that I would say. Very good, you're starting to grasp the concept that sometimes men and women need to be separated. Another no brainier for this would be sports. Simply because of our physical makeup, you could never put men and women in the same physical sport at a professional level. (as good as Rachel Boohar is, she would be broken in half if she had to play on an NFL team.) If you talk to the women of sports, I'm sure that you'll find they are very glad there are 2 separate categories. There is a 2 minute difference in the mens and womens 10k race, 3 feet higher in the pole vault, and almost 20 m in the javelin throw. Women would not want to go from being the best at the Olympics to all the way behind the men. In almost every event, if you placed the men and women in the same race (by time), the entire mens group is abead of the womens leader. So women, i ask you where do you want your line for equality? Clearly it can not be anything physically related.

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Cultural Relativism is the knowledge, understanding, and acceptance of other cultures. These cultures can be practices anywhere from inside your school to around the world. People don't accept other cultures because they are not willing to compromise the culture they were brought up on. This is especially apparent with religion. Most people, and i do mean most, not all, would have a very time understanding Buddhism if they were raised Catholic. It is just a conflict of beliefs. When you have been told one thing for thirty plus years of your life, your mind doesn't even want to accept the possibility of something else being true. That's because if there is something else that people believe, it gives less credibility to your belief. And this is why we say that a religion is weird, or a custom is stupid. We simply cant understand.  So many wars have been started because we don't accept the differences of others. Religion, race, and ethnicity have all started wars and killed thousands of people. If we could just accept the differences in others while accepting ourselves, we wouldn't need to start wars. And nobody wants to start wars. :)