Eric V. Snow, 3-10-01, Speech for Cabela’s
Years ago, the government sued Sears Roebuck for not hiring enough women for certain direct sales jobs. What Sears didn’t roll over and play dead. They argued that women simply didn’t like high pressure direct sales jobs, and wouldn’t apply for them much. In order to prove their point in court, they brought in a feminist scholar who argued that because women have a different personality from men that they wouldn’t like these kinds of jobs since they required aggression. She was a “difference” feminist, a group of feminists who believe women and men have fundamental differences in how they act, think, and look at the world.
So then, do men and women have innately different personalities? Do boys and girls behave differently only because they are raised differently by their parents and taught differently by teachers? Or are they different because they have inherited from their parents’ genes different ways of thinking and acting? Are men and women only different because of how people in society deal with each other? Or are their personality differences rooted in hormones and other chemicals in the body that are fundamentally unchangeable?
The great error of feminists is that they are fighting biology. The normal type of feminist says men and women are completely equal and completely the same by nature. They say the differences between men and women are purely the result of how society deals with men differently from women when they’re younger.
S.P.S. Today, I shall argue that we can know that men and women have innately different personalities based upon scientific knowledge. Since this is true, boys should be raised one way, and girls another. We should recognize in ourselves, and be self-conscious, about how being a man will make us look at the world differently from women.
First, let’s consider the evidence for