Michael Mitchell: Archive

OMG! No one is the same. Any time we share anything, that's when the shit hits the fan. Segregation is the problem, not the solution. Generally speaking, of course. 🙂 Freedom is the solution.

In my experience, women think differently than men, and not necessarily as a consequence of the physiological inferiority of any particular woman, but due rather, I think, to the idea of that inferiority accepted as a foregone conclusion or an expectation of the common -- moreso by fiat to societal pressure than to independent thought -- when it is actually usually untrue more often than it is true, especially for high-level female athletes such as Riley. She may not be able to outswim her male peers, for instance, but she can literally outswim billions of men, most of whom couldn't reach her level even if they devoted the same time and effort.

A definition and its concept's referents are not interchangeable. In other words, all women are not physically inferior to all men. The essential characteristics distinguishing men and women are strictly sexual, but most people relent to the aforesaid pressure and accept a more facetious view.

I played basketball against three high school girls one time and they played with a such a robotic, routine style of ball movement, with no attempts to penetrate, just to get open shots, that I actually had to actively avoid stealing the ball because my natural movement was disrupting their rotations. At the time I wondered who would teach them to play in a such a predictable manner, and I tried (with fakes) to get them to vary shit and be more aggressive, but looking back I realize they were being too respectful of an older male. Never had that problem playing against guys, or even other girls who weren't taught by some organized system, still it indicates a different mentality between men and women. These girls would rather turn the ball over than break the rules of social convention, even as I -- an authority figure, from their perspective -- encouraged them to do so, to just play ball.