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| Sunday, 27 March 2005 |
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Who's the better sex then? by Rikaza Hassan A bunch of guys and gals get together; friends, common acquaintances or even plain foes. Someone for some reason or the other pops as the yet unanswered question that has plagued the sexes in the recent centuries and these days more often than not places them into two finely divided sides of male and female. Which is the superior sex? The all male side with their loud baritone voices out voice the females to proclaim their supremacy. Not only, they will argue, do they have the brawn but also the brains. After all don't their bigger (and thicker?) skulls hold bigger brains and hence higher intellectual power? Also, throughout the history of mankind, even in the stone ages, was it not the male species who went out into the wilderness and the very certain danger to hunt for real food to feed the weaker woman kind and the children? With smugness they will rest their case. The all female side will of course reiterate rather strongly (having been fuming all this time over what they see as plain dumb and very male reasons) that theirs' is very obviously the superior sex. Brawn they say has nothing to do with it. After all are not the tiny bugs that we crush without notice that are the ultimate survivors in nature, with their hardy es-skeletons? A species supremacy is determined by its intelligence. What determines intelligence is not the size of the brain as seen in many mammals, but the content of grey matter in the brain. The female human brain has been shown to contain 51 per cent of grey matter in opposition to 50 per cent in males. As for being gatherers, an argument that holds no water in these modern times, did not the womankind by taking care of the next generation ensure the continuation of the human species? Male or female, or whatever side of the argument you take and no matter the number of reasons you come up with in support of your take of the story, one concept that no one seems to even ponder for a minute is that the male and female species are intrinsically different counterparts of the same race, having different tasks and responsibilities. It is not that the woman should be relegated to the kitchen and the man to the workshop, such conventions hold no place in our times any more. Both man and woman, husband and wife, share household chores, bring home the bread and take equal part in bringing up the kids. Families cannot survive the obstacles dished out in the dozens by a modern lifestyle if they don't. Rather than that the man and the woman are like the two halves of an exquisite broken vase that fit perfectly when put together, with the help of some glue or in this case the support of family and friends. Each one is like the garment of the other, complementing each other. They look out for each other, stand by each other through trials and tribulations and forgive and forget the disputes, letting them only be lessons to be learnt from, and cement their relationship further rather than push them further adrift. In other words, each sex is the missing half of the other sex without which one is not complete. An idea that will probably do the Japanese and the rest of the pacifists of the world proud, but will also probably cause a lot of sarcastic remarks from the very fashionably cynical minds of both sexes (a rather sad group of people that I used to belong to). Take a little time, think about it and let it grow on you. After all this is one solution that does much better than answer the question, it completely does away with it.
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