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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 310758" data-attributes="member: 812">Now, Arravis, had you in fact said just THAT, I'd've had no concerns about what you'd said. What you actually said was:This position to me is a fundamentally broken one. And it's completely different from saying "I'm not so good at predicting what the women in my group want." What it sounds like you're saying is "All women are impossible to understand." Which is a really defeatist attitude.I guess the point I'm making isn't that we should deny gender differences. It's that we shouldn't use gender differences to justify not bothering to understand each other. Which may not be what you meant to say, but IS what I heard you say. I think a statement like "When I was younger I thought I could come to understand them... but I've learned otherwise in my years." supports that interpretation of what you said. I don't accept that sort of attitude, and I will challenge it where I find it.We should all of us all the time be making the effort to understand each other. Even if (maybe especially because) we'll never understand each other perfectly or completely.</blockquote>