02Tenon on Wood From Eden

[02Tenon]

You do make an interesting point on science and philosophy being important but women's focus lying elsewhere. a piece i'm working on asserts that scientific approaches have basically taken over the endeavor to understand the human condition, so our philosophy and art is garbage. It is too grounded in deductive reasoning and evidence seeking (e.g. there was no methodology and works cited section to 'Beyond Good and Evil', yet western thought suggests that any idea lacking those things is not sound).

So, interestingly, women, whose thinking is not characterized by evidence seeking and deductive reasoning (generally speaking, imo) to the same extent, may be able to add a dose of what is missing, if a mode of feminine thought could be constructed that was grounded in reason and oriented towards the world. I believe men and women in western societies, at this point in time, are equally far from sound philosophical thinking but for different reasons.

Concerning your point about women understanding men, I think just starting from the basic point that men are not just shitty women. Have to be willing to accept that you need to interpret what we do within a different framework that does not assume the same mental model. We do not seek sex for the same reason a woman does, and that statement that was lacking in empathy was not made with the same intent that a woman would have made it with.