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This isn’t as puzzling as you make it out to be. The whole point of feminism is claiming that women are just as capable and competent as men. So why do most of them seem to need help from men to write successful songs?
Now I’m certainly not saying that women lack talent as a whole (Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You was written by Dolly Parton originally, so clearly is possible for women to produce a megahit love song), it’s just that extreme talent seems to be more common in men. What seems to be lacking is women’s ability to recognize and appreciate that in men, and that’s the point I believe anon was trying to make.
Patricarchy.
If the only tool you have is feminism, every problem looks like the patriarchy.
But a system that makes it harder for a certain group of people to become successful will create more successful people of the favoured group.
There may be other factors at play here, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that men have a higher likelyness of being extremely talented with the possible underlying implication that talent is dependent on sex.
As an artist myself I might add, talent is a misconception in itself. Arts are a craft that can be learned.
The whole bear/man in the woods thing was about feeling safe, not men's artistic talent.
Would I feel uneasy or insecure about it if I was a guy? Probably. But anon fails to ask the important question. Why do women choose the bear, despite the dedicated, artistic, violent deeds of men for love?
I'll leave this open, because I believe we won't see eye to eye on this one.
Interesting you’d say that. So what does it tell you about who is favored as a group when female college graduates have been outpacing men since 1981?
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Or that more single women own their own homes than single men do?
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A strange patriarchy we live in…