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I wouldn't want too many boys building my bridges. Out of legos, you know.

I said 'boys' for a reason, to distinguish males who don't have complete emotional maturity.

Actually, if you look for sheer intelligence, women actually do hold the upper hand. Given an equal opportunity (and education), women are more likely (and have shown themselves) to be more successful than their male counterparts. Hence why the "smart ones" in schools were more often girls than boys.

I suspect Sipid's data, and our general knowledge of women in advanced fields, sheds more light on institutional gender bias than anything else.

Girls more easy to manipulate? Perhaps if you're a girl, but to guys, forget it.

Boys are by far the simpler of the two sexes. To males, life consists of routines: eat, drink, toilet, eat some more, think about sex, sleep. That's about it. Perhaps randomly a good idea pops in there, and that's where we have ingenuity, but on the large scale of things, men are like dogs. Give us a bone, and we're happy to do anything for you. Anything.

Now, women are more complex. Like you said, women are ruled by emotions, and that alone adds an unknown factor that's impossible to predict. Therefore, while men could give women the same bone that men like, there's only a slight chance that it'll cause the same desired reaction. Therefore, I liken the female to that of a cat: generally if you treat it nice, it'll be kind to you. However, there'll still be those times that you treat it nice, give it milk, go to pick it up and end up with five nice bloody scratch marks for no obvious reason. Hence, women are more difficult to predict, thus women are more difficult to manipulate.

I also have to argue that women are easily manipulated. Many suffer low self-esteem, and this can be used to tremendous advantage for men looking to get laid. Also, if the man in question never raises her self-esteem at all, she'll think he's the best she can do and therefore be emotionally bound to him. It's all very simple to exploit female emotions for the betterment of me.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v170/ButterBallsXe/People/Myself/Winter Formal 2006/

Butters looks like a mafia hitman. "It's nothing personal, just business."

So my daughter's been passing blood since Wednesday, and we've taken her to the ER and doctor's office twice. After switching from breastmilk to formula to gentlease formula to soy formula, it turns out that she's allergic to both cows milk and soy milk (basically everything we've been feeding her). This has caused her colon to become super irritated and bleed, hence the bloody diapers. So, after doing a fecal test for bacteria and a blood test for other issues, it's just a food allergy. Now we're giving her this special formula for babies with this allergy and she's doing better from what we've seen. I guess you never really do know how much it sucks to have your child in pain/hurt until it really happens to you.

On a side note, anyone notice how I didn't make a thread in LI: "OMGWTFBBQ!!!1 MY BABYS SHITTIN BLOOD!!1" Though I do suspect I'd get quite a few comments about it.