Posted by
Zorro on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:11:02 AM
Did I already mention my theory that women tend to
be made more Democratic by chivalry? This idea is based on the fact that much
of human motivation, though not all, is in self-interest. That self interest
causes people to be slightly biased toward those political systems that will
favor them, or that they have been conditioned to believe will favor them.
Chivalry is a form of collectivism whereby women benefit. This makes them more
prone to be Democrats. By more, I don’t say we expect >50%. I merely mean
they are more prone than men, and this is one of the reasons. Some may question
my “collectivist” statement. I use this in a very broad sense whereby all forms
of cooperation are on a continuum where the extreme is “collectivist.” All
forms of compassion and help are collectivist in this sense. I suppose I could
differentiate between altruistic “cooperation” and symbiotic “cooperation,” but
as I have said that women are greater beneficiaries of such cooperation, it is
obvious that I mean something in the middle (otherwise I’d say only
beneficiaries, or equal beneficiaries.). In any case, all forms of cooperation
loom larger in the Democratic mind, and I think “collectivism” isn’t such a bad
word for that spectrum. So as I say, being the beneficiaries of such
“cooperation” biases women more toward that system.