Just based on your title (haven’t read the rest), I would say no, women are hard wired to care for INFANTS. Men are hardwired to care for the woman while she cares for the infant.
When there is no infant, then that nurturing nature may be turned on their partner or animals, sure. But we are wired for the infants!
I am very aware of that fact, having channeled my own nurturing instinct on immature men when I was younger. It was only when I met a man that I didn’t feel needed me to mother him that I suddenly realised I wanted a child! I’m 37 now and we are preparing to try and conceive - me having to come off a bunch of medications that I went on for the fibromyalgia I would say was largely caused by the psychopathologies mentioned in this article.
I kind of relate to one of the speakers in that I was never attracted to babies as a young person (and only recently have started to find them cute). I also felt awkward around them. But animals and men, they received my ample maternal instinct. I’m not sure if it’s because I was an only child, or maybe I was sublimating any attraction towards babies because I wanted to be an independent career woman. But I’ve found in my later years that nothing brings me peace, joy, and motivation like looking after my dog and my chickens, and I’m sure I will only feel that more about children. I now resonate with much of what these ladies say, and wish I had realised this earlier in life.
Also like one of the speakers, I too have always generally preferred the company of men, and feel protective towards their gender. The resentment that is encouraged in many young women towards men today is poison to the soul, and usually unwarranted. Not that it’s really their fault - it is the conditioning of the culture.
Conditioning that I suspect is quite intentional and from a top-down direction. Like one speaker said here: “feminism doesn’t require happy, contented women; it needs discontented, anxious, and angry women, alienated from themselves and their families. They become dependent on the state”. Disempowerment, separation, alienation … destruction of the family achieves all of these things and makes us far more easy to control (and the population down). Plus it keeps job competition up and thus wages low.
Of course I like that women’s options are more open now. For those who really have a burning desire for a particular career, they should be able to go for that. But we should stop denigrating the “trad-wife” lifestyle, and educate young girls that for most of them, motherhood and a loving romantic relationship are where they will derive their greatest meaning in life.
Just based on your title (haven’t read the rest), I would say no, women are hard wired to care for INFANTS. Men are hardwired to care for the woman while she cares for the infant.
When there is no infant, then that nurturing nature may be turned on their partner or animals, sure. But we are wired for the infants!
And some men act like big infants ;-)
I am very aware of that fact, having channeled my own nurturing instinct on immature men when I was younger. It was only when I met a man that I didn’t feel needed me to mother him that I suddenly realised I wanted a child! I’m 37 now and we are preparing to try and conceive - me having to come off a bunch of medications that I went on for the fibromyalgia I would say was largely caused by the psychopathologies mentioned in this article.
I kind of relate to one of the speakers in that I was never attracted to babies as a young person (and only recently have started to find them cute). I also felt awkward around them. But animals and men, they received my ample maternal instinct. I’m not sure if it’s because I was an only child, or maybe I was sublimating any attraction towards babies because I wanted to be an independent career woman. But I’ve found in my later years that nothing brings me peace, joy, and motivation like looking after my dog and my chickens, and I’m sure I will only feel that more about children. I now resonate with much of what these ladies say, and wish I had realised this earlier in life.
Also like one of the speakers, I too have always generally preferred the company of men, and feel protective towards their gender. The resentment that is encouraged in many young women towards men today is poison to the soul, and usually unwarranted. Not that it’s really their fault - it is the conditioning of the culture.
Conditioning that I suspect is quite intentional and from a top-down direction. Like one speaker said here: “feminism doesn’t require happy, contented women; it needs discontented, anxious, and angry women, alienated from themselves and their families. They become dependent on the state”. Disempowerment, separation, alienation … destruction of the family achieves all of these things and makes us far more easy to control (and the population down). Plus it keeps job competition up and thus wages low.
Of course I like that women’s options are more open now. For those who really have a burning desire for a particular career, they should be able to go for that. But we should stop denigrating the “trad-wife” lifestyle, and educate young girls that for most of them, motherhood and a loving romantic relationship are where they will derive their greatest meaning in life.