While Men Represent Powerful Activity As Assertion

For A Man To Be A Man, Did He Have To Be A Soldier, Or At Least Prepare Himself For War? For A Woman To Be A Woman, Did She Have To Be A Mother, Or At Least Prepare Herself To Raise Children? Soldiers And Mothers Were The Sacrificial Couple, Honored By Statues In The Park, Lauded For Their Willingness To Give Their Lives To Others.

My Research Suggests That Men And Women May Speak Different Languages That They Assume Are The Same, Using Similar Words To Encode Disparate Experiences Of Self And Social Relationships. Because These Languages Share An Overlapping Moral Vocabulary, They Contain A Propensity For Systematic Mistranslation.

While Men Represent Powerful Activity As Assertion And Aggression, Women In Contrast Portray Acts Of Nurturance As Acts Of Strength.

Both Love And Democracy Depend On Voice -- Having A Voice And Also The Resonance That Makes It Possible To Speak And Be Heard.

It All Goes Back, Of Course, To Adam And Eve - A Story Which Shows Among Other Things, That If You Make A Woman Out Of A Man, You Are Bound To Get Into Trouble.