....anyway, went out to my car and snapped on the radio - my favorite music radio station and the segment (IMHO) sucked so I switched to NPR, which is the only other radio station worth listening to in these parts receivable on the car radio - also IMHO). There was a lady talking about language and pronouns as they relate to gender - now please, I know this seems unrelated but bear with me and you may see that it is. I think, having come in not at the beginning, that this had to do with the American cultural phenomena of "What's my pronoun". What she was saying was that different languages, (which naturally carry the culture in which they are spoken by within - my observation) placed more emphasis on gender in their pronouns, others less - the idea being as she spake it that some people were offended that their very specific gender identity didn't have an appropriate pronoun. She went on, in her very soothing female intonations, to note that for example, in Hebrew there were very specific 1st to third person gender specific pronouns, and in America English less specific, while in Finnish there are none at all. I pondered this momentarily and wondered if the obsession with differences on it's own wasn't cause for division and conflict (as you may now begin to see relates to the current discussion). Division, separateness, I vs You, is a characteristic of gross materialism. Now, I don't think that any of us (I mean on this board - not no humans) are so high spiritually that we don't recognize differences, but some seem to be more perpetually aware and focus on maintaining them. It infuses their every interaction. They object to unity even on the most rudimentary level.
.. So I thought, in relation to the ongoing discussion, what societies are most obsessed with gender division, which are most guidoistic (patriarchal/male/testosterone dominated - in other words in all ways primitive) and how does that relate to violence one human upon another? I referred to the map posted elsewhere above and guess what was there to be seen re: the most violent?
Hint - it wasn't Finland