Men are from Omacron Theta 8, Women are from Omacron Theta 7

It's friday so who wants to be stir things up? I'll look at a topic that inspires very little debate: how men and women differ.

OK, I am more curious as to how we think they are differrent and how we used think they were different, in a different way.

What are the early 21st century sterotypes: Women are more artistic, care more for fashion and cosmetics (they have more of a flare for it), are much deeper thinkers than men and see life more as a whole. Women can have children and take care of them. Men make good worker bees, have tin ears and wooden eyes when it comes to art, and dress like they don't care, see things in simple terms and can never see "the big picture".

Go back to the late 18th century, and here is what you get: Men are great artists and novelists - women? Why, what a silly idea - they are good at pushing out babies, but men are much better at raising them. Women do not have a good enough grasp of the world the way men do that is required to create great works of art - they are simplistic. Only men can deal with emotions because men are simply more emotional, and feel things deeper.

The 18th Century European Nobleman wore powder and rouge on his face, a wig, and hose on his legs. Today, he'd better do that in the gay part of town or he'll be arriving home with less teeth than when he set out.

I wonder how men and women will differ in another 200 years.

Tom.