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Is there a war between the sexes in society?
"One cannot understand the psychology of women, and for that matter the psychology of men, and one cannot understand the element of sadism, of hostility and destructiveness in men and women if one does not consider that there has been a war between the sexes going on in the last six thousand years. This war is a guerrilla war. Women have been defeated by patriarchalism six thousand years ago and society has been built upon the domination of men. Women were possessions and had to be grateful for every new concession that men made to them. But there is no domination of one part of mankind over another, of a social class, of a nation or of a sex over another, unless there is underneath rebellion, fury, hate and wish for revenge in those who are oppressed and exploited and fear and insecurity in those who do the exploiting and repressing." (Erich Fromm)

http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell8.htm(Fromm 1975, p. 59).

There is nature,
there are emotions,
theres is common sense.

Its about the balance or unbalance that has been defined and will define future social developments and generally in all its aspects.

My common sense tells me,that mankind walked away from nature and that emotions where chosen to be the decisive factor over common sense, too often......

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