“Frankly, it’s self-evident to me that women are the more selfish of the sexes.”
Selfish isn’t perhaps the best term for the difference. Self-obsessed might be more accurate or perhaps simply self-focused. While the pattern is merely a general one and has many exceptions, a group of women will talk about themselves and their feelings, while a group of men will talk about things and events (cars, gadgets, and sporting events), even those remote to their own experience.
Notice how much of Hillary’s campaign has focused on herself and her feelings or how she can get away with (admittedly fake) crying. And yes, Obama is also a bit obsessed with himself and his feelings too, but exceptions like that merely prove the broad rule. There is something feminine about him, perhaps because he was raised almost exclusively by women. Like all too many women, he overrates the value of talking and undervalues the importance of deeds, a fatal combination in a President, as Carter demonstrated a generation ago.
You also see it in charitable events. Women are always raising money to cure their unique cancers. How many men walk, run or would even dare mention raising money for research into prostrate cancer?
–Michael W. Perry, editor of Free Lover: Sex, Marriage and Eugenics in the Early Writings of Victoria Woodhull
