Gender discussions can degenerate into blameshifting and pity partys and power struggles because when you look at the big picture people tend to relate personally and think about what happened to them.
Evolution has happened to all of us and as far as adapting goes, women are the dogs. Cats were only domesticated to the extent that they did what they do naturally, catching vermin and to this day hardly anyone trains a cat. They are free to be cats. (Sadly they are systematically eliminating all the songsbirds on earth but that is a different story.) Birds cannot breed with each other. Each bird is an independent species. Dogs on the other hand can all breed with each other. You can cross a Pekinese with a Wolf (hopefully the Wolf will be the mother).
Because of the power of man, dogs have had a lot of adapting to do! They were bred to help man with all sorts of hunting with horses, and guns and for drugs and for lost souls, and also to pull sleds, and for security, and for fighting, et cetera. SO we have this huge variety of breeds, e.g., dachsunds were evolved to go down rabbit holes.
Boys are the cats. Girls are the dogs. It is the male who had all the power physically, financially and by social convention. It was the female who had to do all the adapting. Girls are an infinite variety and have much more emotional radar. (There is a book The Female Brain, that elaborates all the adaptions that the dominant gender were not forced into.) Just as with the dogs, boys used fear and hunger to create woman
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I take our cats for walks. They stay with me. I never heard of anyone else doing this. Cats have us so fooled we dont think they can learn. We are a pride.
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