Dragan,
>>Does anyone object to the lack of a "mother figure"? Or is the pater familias so important because it projects (psychologically) into further figures of boss, commander, priest, landlord, and any male god you may put at the end of the line. So a father figure is deemed to be necessary in order to perpetuate the male-ruled hierarchies and make sure there's never a true equality of genders.
I suppose that is one possibility. Another possibility is that most of the stats are for absent father figures rather than absent mother figures because that is what seems to happen in the real world.
>>As to the evidence you mention, sure - this is a man's world. With nobody there to tell them all the dirty tricks that most women just don't want to have anything with... of course they're less equipped for the society as it is now.
Not sure what you mean.
>>Does that really/necessarily mean they're worse persons?
Did somebody suggest that?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
