Women...think?

So with all this hype about candidates' wives being called out for never working a day in their lives, or choosing to be mothers, or even choosing to work on this instead of that, it has me thinking. Again, I guess one of the most fascinating topics for me is the difference between girls and guys and what makes them tick the way that they do.

For centuries, women have been looked at as man's companion and it was set upon men to do the thinking for the pair. And then came along Gloria Steinem and the whole world was turned upside down. OK, maybe it wasn't quite that simple. But progressively through more recent years women have decided more and more to start thinking and acting independently to men. And we come to today. Would you call it evolution? Would you call it a radical and important change? Would you say it's against nature?

I'm sure most women's first instinct is to say damn right, I think for myself and don't let a stupid man influence my life decisions. We, of course, are partly lying to ourselves because we are hard wired to want some kind of man in our life. Stable boyfriend, best friend, sex friend. It's just not as cut and dry as it used to be; we don't need to have our family started by the time we are 19 anymore.

Here's what I think. I think that certain hardwired gender traits too often stop a person from being the best that they can be. Look at men and their natural need to spread their seed. Gets them in soo much trouble that billions of dollars are made on bad reality and talk shows that are evolved around this one single indubitable fact. How many men with some of the most powerful positions in America have come crashing down so they could get a blow job or have crazy forbidden sex with that average looking reporter. Does it happen to women? Yes. But not a whole lot.

And then women. And they're thinking. What happened to the good old days when women didn't get all feminist and political about everything? Truth is, women have always been this way, they just used to think about these things a lot more to themselves. And the damning gender trait for women? They are not just over thinking, they are over feeling. And the more time they have to think about something, the more it becomes a sensitive matter until the emotions have overcome the logical thinking that she is still holding on to in the back of her head. Oh, she'll realize it later. But the emotions will come into play before she can stop herself. This equates to what appears to others as a lack of self confidence, and I think most people know how important that is in our world.

I think it's definitely safe to say the role of men and women have changed drastically over just the past 60 years and everyone's finding the best way they know how to function in a world with less but more rules.