Japanese man explains his perspective on why Japan's society is declining
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Women are good for a lot more than just babies, just as men aren't good at absolutely everything humans can do.
The male nature is competitive, aggressive, driven, and systemizing. It views the world in terms of its component parts. Resources, threats, goals, and tasks.
The female nature other hand is all about cooperation, nurturing, coalition building, and emotional validation. It views the world in terms of the connections between people, emotions and communication, and ensuring needs are met on more than just an immediate tangible level.
Both of these are necessary for a healthy society, and for a healthy individual. An insufficency or excess of either is dysfunctional.
You see this with children. Mothers stand between their children and new people or things, men stand behind them once it's established there's no threat. The cliche mother says "don't hang from the monkeybars like that, it's too high". The cliche father says "If you fall that's going to hurt".
In a healthy balance the mother knows to give her children warnings but allow them to make their own mistakes, and the father knows when they fall to first offer comfort and security and then when they calm down tell them they're a dumbass and know better for next time. In an unhealthy balance the mother smothers her child, and the father callously tells them to get over it.