Questions from class

What roles do men and woman play - how do gender roles limit or enable men and woman to act in conflict?

If we look at words to describe them we get a clear vision of how men and women are suppose to act. Men are the aggressive, violent, brutal, animal like instinct, dangerous, wild.
They are going to be going out and downing the killing because it what they have to do. They have to protect the females and children back in the village or country. Men are seen as the strong ones who lead us to worry.
I think part of it is that they feel that they have ownership to women. They need to protect them. Women are their responsibility. It is like they are comparing us to house or a car some material object. They own us so it it there job to protect us from danger. That is way men go out and fight. At the same time when they go out to fight they are not realize the affect it is having back at home. They are either going to be killed or kill. War effect both men and women in terrible ways. For men they have witness horrible things and first hand killings. It mess up their mind. Just think about all the men who have come back form Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Some of them come back and don't know how to cope with their family and every day life. It going to get worst with these drone killing.

Now men or possible women can set at a computer and just killed a few hundred of people a day. Just think about the damage that is going to have on people.

Back to the issue.
Women have a different experience with warfare and conflict. Where men are more direct in the everyday fights or conflict women tend to hold back and do a lot of back handed aggression. Just look at the movie Mean Girls. There was so much fight among them but it was not violent. Lindsey Lohan character says if she was in the animal kingdom it would be easy to solve the fights. Sense they are in girl world they had to go about things differently.

In war women are left back in the village to make sure things back at the home front are running smoothly. It also shows how women are limited by the reproductive roles. Physical they can not go fight wars for month is they are caring a child or have children that still breast feed. There are some biological factors that play into it.