Re: Same as it ever was

Since you mention estrogen...

(Not suggesting this but) What would happen if the debate forums were segregated by sex/gender... so that men could only debate other men, and women other women? Would there be these dramatic Battles Royale....? I wonder.

My real question is... Setting Tony aside, doesn't it seem that Hv mainly has a problem debating "the women of CZ?" Seems that way, if you think about the most-entrenched, most contentious battles.

I think what happens is that Hv responds to the women no differently than he responds to men, which is to say, he "cuts to the quick" rhetorically. And the women to a certain extent feel like they were just disrespected, or "scolded," or treated like a girl/talked down to. And so they naturally resent this and retaliate. (?)

The sexes can push each other's buttons so easily.

(- insert lusty comment here -).

And as Robert Bly commented, "The sexes can shame each other very easily."