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Posted by SteveTheFolkie on January 8, 2007 at 3:15:03 pm EST
In reply to Re: What do you get out of the backcountry? posted by Alicia on January 8, 2007 at 2:45:17 pm EST

Alicia wrote ....
"This raises the question of whether men and women, on the whole, identify differently with nature. Obviously individuals can and do. I think it depends on the individual more than gender though, but I could be wrong."

I think our nurture has more to do with this than nature. I could very well be wrong (I often am), but it would seem logical that both genders are equally at home in the wild. Our ancestors, after all, lived under conditions that even the most hardened backpacker would find lacking in creature comforts.
I also find it interesting that Western civilization attributes hunting skills to men and "housework" to women - in historical studies of many smaller societies the reverse is true. While most of these societies were destroyed by well meaning missionaries and greed driven imperialists a century or more ago, women tended to provide most of the food while the men tended to be more "home bodies" within these cultures.
This current pattern of presumed male domination probably stems more from a fairly common base of beliefs (across Western cultures) than anything else.
Yes - I am trying to be careful about how I phrase things - the last thing I want to do is start an argument about different systems of beliefs!
I've written far more than I'd intended when I set out, so I'll close for now (before I get myself in trouble!)

Steve

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• Re: What do you get out of the backcountry? - tripp 20:38:34 01/08/2007
  • Re: What do you get out of the backcountry? - SteveTheFolkie 06:50:13 01/09/2007
    • Re: What do you get out of the backcountry? - tripp 07:44:23 01/09/2007
      • Re: What do you get out of the backcountry? - Rosh 17:32:04 01/09/2007
  • Re: What do you get out of the backcountry? - Alicia 21:47:00 01/08/2007
    • Re: What do you get out of the backcountry? - SureLockInc 22:46:01 01/08/2007

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