We love to watch women suffer. Being women, they do it so beautifully...

[EldKatt]

By and large, I have no idea what you're talking about. I've stated my opinion and understanding of things. Do what you like with it. Kthx.

[shitar]

Plato had some interesting perspective in Book 5 of the Republic.

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.6.v.html

"You are quite right, he replied, in maintaining the general inferiority of the female sex: although many women are in many things superior to many men, yet on the whole what you say is true.

And if so, my friend, I said, there is no special faculty of administration in a state which a woman has because she is a woman, or which a man has by virtue of his sex, but the gifts of nature are alike diffused in both; all the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, but in all of them a woman is inferior to a man.

Very true.
Then are we to impose all our enactments on men and none of them on women?

That will never do.
One woman has a gift of healing, another not; one is a musician, and another has no music in her nature?

Very true.
And one woman has a turn for gymnastic and military exercises, and another is unwarlike and hates gymnastics?

Certainly.
And one woman is a philosopher, and another is an enemy of philosophy; one has spirit, and another is without spirit?

That is also true.
Then one woman will have the temper of a guardian, and another not. Was not the selection of the male guardians determined by differences of this sort?

Yes.
Men and women alike possess the qualities which make a guardian; they differ only in their comparative strength or weakness. "