Category Archives: Human Nature

“What Should it Take” to Be a Mother?

© 2012, Davd Mother’s Day is coming soon, and the advertising has already begun. This essay is about the seriousness of motherhood, about the social conditions required to do it with excellence, and about the ecological-demographic reasons not to enter … Continue reading

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Patriarchy …

a reflection for comment and development (c) 2012, Davd Maybe patriarchy isn’t so bad after all—maybe, in fact, it is good in context, and maybe some of those Feminists who condemn it so viciously and see it where it is … Continue reading

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The Female of the Species

by Rudyard Kipling When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the … Continue reading

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Fewer and Better—for Mothers and Marriages:

Facing the Facts of Gender Relations, and Acting to Improve Them—and the Future. Working paper (c) 2011, Davd The present (late 2011) population of the earth is between three and three hundred times too large for the planet to support … Continue reading

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Rape, Consent, Prudence, and Mitigation: .. a start at clarification by analogy

-Davd I am not a lawyer, nor have i been a law-student.  I do notice that legal writing and argument makes much use of analogy and metaphor-more than do biological and social science, where i have more experience.  Changes in … Continue reading

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Abortion, the Law, the “status of men” …

… and “the Sacredness of Human Life” by Davd Part 1: Legal and Moral Predicament Men do not get pregnant. We have no standing in Canadian abortion law. It may be easy sometimes, for some men to pretend the abortion … Continue reading

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