-takers. While submissiveness and emotionality are ideal skills for
avoiding suffering, they are useless for living in reality. They prevent
women from having any stomach at all for hard****p. In contrast, man is
constantly exposed to hard****p, worry, and stress, as they are an
integral part of the competitive male world. Therefore, woman's strength
is that she is expert at avoiding suffering, while the strength of man
is that he can bear-up under it. It is not of his own doing, but man
thereby gains what qualifies him for a life of thinking, and for a life
of spirit. He has the ability to withstand the mental hard****p necessary
for real thought.
In this respect then, man and woman are worlds apart. A woman is
severely restricted in her thinking. She has no mind for irony,
contradictions and paradoxes. She has no mind for the dialectic. There
is no use in forcing a woman into a good that hurts - it would break
her. Only men, true men at least, have the toughness, born out of their
egotistic competitiveness, to endure the intense agonies of the true
philosophic life. A life of honesty.
"Now she loves him, and looks ahead with quiet confidence - like a cow"
reflects Nietzsche. Woman's greatest love is when she possesses one man,
or when she possesses a child. Relation****p is her basic need. This is
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