男人好色与女人購物: 先天還是後天? / Sex and Shopping: "Nature" vs "Nurtured"

The following are my comments on a recent blog article that suggests "... Men think about sex every 5 minutes and women abt shopping every 60 seconds ..."

My comments: "Nature vs Nurtured"

We need to make a distinction btwn "nature" vs "nurtured". I would think that for BOTH men and women, sex is a basic instinct (no reference to Stone), while shopping is not. The reason why there is a gender difference could be attributed in part to gender inequality and social conditioning. For example (with all respect to Inner Space): "女性很需要安全感 Women need security" is not a universal truth and "而這是由她的男人, 無私的不停地供應 This financial/materialistic security is provided endlessly and unselfishly by men" is an indication of the economic disadvantages of women in a society. Both have little to do with the nature of women, but rather how they are being nurtured and treated by family, friends, mass media, and society in general. As pointed out quite rightly by Xiao Zhu, a lot of our behaviours are driven by our values 價值覌。The foregoing argument applies similarly to men as well.

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