Not the least-bit surprising in the face of the even more obvious no-brainer 25 years ago… When Clinton sexually molested his interns.

No, not Monica, she got well-paid for her Presidential Kneepads, with a cushy pentagon job, a book deal, and a weight watchers contract in return for her infamy.

No, the ones that were sexually molested were all the other interns who did not want kneepads, and we denied any “rewards” for earning such.

No, opprobrium at all…

25 years ago Time contributor Nina Burleigh told then-Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz: “I’d be happy to give [Clinton] a blow job just to thank him for keeping abortion legal.”

She also said, same timeframe:
“I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.”

By Pearl’s logic, most men should not be allowed to vote either.

Single fathers do a better job of raising children than single mothers.

As near as I can tell we agree. What am I missing? Aside from the hard egg/sperm dichotomy.

I respectfully disagree, and I think you missed my point. In sexual reproduction one and only one has to make and carry an egg. There can be some swapping, like with seahorses and penguins, but that’s not an option with live births. That biologic fact dictates the rest.

Nature/evolution/God/Richard Dawkins… they all want women and men to be as strong and able to defend themselves and their offspring as possible and they all want women and men to be as nurturing as possible. The mechanics of the thing dictate the specialization. It puts some limitations on the amount of strength and athleticism women can achieve, vis a vis men; and increases the nurturing bond mothers have with their progeny, vis a vis fathers.

I commented in broad strokes. Certainly females can protect children and do; males can nurture children and do.

However, the general male/female dichotomy in terms of protect/nurture holds. With the caveat:
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Specialization is for insects.

–Robert A. Heinlien

One doesn’t hear the word, “distaff” often, but the Catholics on this thread heard it last Sunday as it was featured in the first reading at Mass; Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20 and 30-31. Although I knew the word one could easily discern its meaning from that Bible passage.