By Warren Farrell
Greater than a vintage bestseller..."a bombshell"* within the conflict among the sexes.
Beyond anger. past controversy. past dogma...
...lies knowing. this can be what bestselling writer Warren Farrell came upon whilst he took a stand opposed to verified perspectives of the male position in society, and pursued a process research to determine who males relatively are. listed here are the eye-opening, heart-rending, and undeniably enlightening results...
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For example, being in pain, eating one’s dinner and feeling the cold could be said to belong to the physical realm. Dreaming, having a spiritual experience or coming up with a good idea belong to the mental realm. Although this was a novel idea at the time, it has quickly embedded itself in our language and thought, with profound consequences for how we understand our experience. The mental-physical dimension is one which is inescapable for us when we try to make sense of events. Is my headache physical (having an organic cause) or mental (either imaginary or originating in psychological distress)?
Prevailing discourses of femininity speak of emotionality, illogicality and intuitiveness— not the stuff of science. Women who want to do science are faced with the problem of how they can bring off their identity without appearing to be either ‘not a proper woman’ or ‘a bad scientist’. The same is probably true in politics, and whatever one may think of Margaret Thatcher her identities as politician and as woman/wife/mother did not sit easily together. For each of us, then, a multitude of discourses is constantly at work constructing and producing our identity.
Saussure’s major contribution was in his assertion that the link between the signifier (spoken sound) and the signified (concept) is an arbitrary one. At first sight this appears to be a rather obvious assertion. Of course we all know that there is nothing inherent in the sound of the word ‘dog’ that makes it a singularly appropriate label for the animal, and we only have to observe the fact that other languages use different words for ‘dog’ or ‘pig’ to be satisfied that the words we use to refer to concepts are just a convention—any word would do as long as everyone uses the same one.