RSSLongtime Astros fan here. Thank you for the congrats. Hard to square Darvish’s deer-in-headlights demeanor in Game 7 with his cocksure attitude just prior to jumping to the big leagues. I remember some press conference where he made a boastful aside about having knocked up a Japanese starlet and would marry her to preserve her family’s honor.
Agreed that Roberts made a lot of questionable decisions. Behind Kershaw’s pre-Game 7 remark to the media that he could pitch 27 innings if that’s what his manager asked him to do, there must have been a lot of anger that Roberts chose to start Darvish over him.
Longtime Astros fan here. Thank you for the congrats. Hard to square Darvish’s deer-in-headlights demeanor in Game 7 with his cocksure attitude just prior to jumping to the big leagues. I remember some press conference where he made a boastful aside about having knocked up a Japanese starlet and planned to marry her to preserve her family’s honor.
Agreed that Roberts made a lot of questionable decisions. Behind Kershaw’s pre-Game 7 remark to the media that he could pitch 27 innings if that’s what his manager asked him to do, there must have been a lot of anger that Roberts chose to start Darvish over him.
Well, when, in any society, have women ever had to take responsibility for their actions, and bear the costs and consequences of their choices, to near the same degree as similarly-situated men? When have men not been called upon, either individually or collectively (such as via the state), to "man up" and shoulder the burden of women's mistakes? Men are the expendable sex, and more attention is always paid toward ameliorating women's pains and burdens. (Remember Hillary's comment about how women are the ones who always suffer the most in war, because they lose husbands or sons?) Very few people, male or female, Left or Right, feminist or traditionalist, actually act as if they really believe women have the same level of agency, responsibility, and moral culpability as adult men. (There are reasons solid Libertarians skew not just heavily male, but disproportionately single or gay men.)
The Still-She-Persisted ladies and the Well-Behaved-Women ladies don’t have… a willingness to take responsibility…
Predicted by basic evolutionary theory: see Bateman's principle and Robert Trivers's work on sexual selection and parental investment theory. Whichever sex invests more resources in offspring (usually the female, and pretty much always for placental mammals, given pregnancy and lactation), will see less variation in reproductive success, and cluster around a "safe" strategy, while the other sex, seeing more reproductive variance, compete with one another in pursuit of the higher-investing sex. Humans are no exception. (The estimate is that something like 80% of all women who've ever lived have successfully reproduced, but only 40% of men; but on the other hand, a woman is biologically incapable of having the runaway reproductive success of a Ramesis or a Genghis Khan.) See also various distribution curves, like intelligence or status, where males have higher variance, dominating both the high and low ends.
they don’t take risks
In other words, sticking to the safe, average strategy and following the herd. Again, just as evolution predicts for female mammals.Replies: @Opinionator, @female lurker
but they know how to keep a chair warm and Play By The Rules
Women bear the brunt of the consequences of sexual intercourse. For men, those consequences are optional. That’s been true in… all societies, I think.
It’s optional for men to stick around and help care for children they helped create. The also lack the desire to nurture children who are not their own biological children.* Because of those facts, in high-paternal-investment i.e. patriarchal societies, men impose restrictions on women’s freedoms in order to make damn sure the children they’re helping raise are theirs. It’s the tradeoff of patriarchy.
In current Western society, women tend to enjoy all the benefits of patriarchy without the traditional concomitant restraints on women.
*Obviously, exceptions exist, such as the beautiful story of Silas Marner.