Men care more about Nature than Women do

" I think that love of Nature depends on the individual person, and that it has nothing to do with sex, race or religion".

 

These word were spoken by my uncle Jack, and now he has been brandished as a sexist by the local liberals (or the cat lovers and tea drinkers as he refers to them - quite wrongly as some of them seems to love nothing at all).

 

You might not know my uncle Jack, although a lot of people do. He is not unintelligent, but he has never learned to be politically correct. He speaks his mind without thinking. And it is incredible what the human brain can come up with, if you are not careful. The broad-minded community of our small town calls him narrow-minded. (He, rather naively, claims that broad-minded people can't be broad-minded, if they call other people narrow-minded).

 

What happened was this: There was an article in the local newspaper. It was about women. One claim was, that women care more about Nature than men do.

 

That was what he reacted to. He wrote a letter to the editor, and that's where he wrote the fatal sentence already quoted above: "I think that love of Nature depends on the individual person, and that it has nothing to do with sex, race or religion".

 

And now he is being accused of accusing women of being racists and that therefore he is a sexist!

 

I confronted him about the commotion caused by his unfortunate comment. "Well" he said, "its nothing. Think about what would have happened, if I had written "Men care more about Nature than women do." 

 

Quite honestly, I do not dare think about it.
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PS. Many years ago (1975) a saw a Danish film "Ta' det som en mand, frue" (Take it like a Man, Madam!). It reversed the roles of men and women in an office environment. Quite revealing when you had women behave like men and men like women. And quite chocking to hear the kind of remarks usually uttered by men about women in the mouth of women, and about men. Much has happened since then. Maybe it will soon be time to make the version Take it like a Woman, Man! Sometimes I now do the "sex reversal test" to see how female comments on the male sex would sound if the gender was changed. You should try it. It seems that women can get away with saying things about men that men cannot say about women.