Do you agree that a woman is the warrior and man is the shield of the woman?

Question

Women are warriors, men are the shields. True?

Read and then think no need to answer now.

Woman uses only half of the brain and is smarter than the man who uses the full brain.

Answer 1

No. Woman is the nurturer and man is the protector.

Answer 2

I saw this question days ago, and have thought about it on and off since then.

A simple answer to the question is "No. It's not true." Why? Because in order for the statement to be capital T-true both clauses must be true in call cases. Obviously, they're not.

That doesn't preclude, however, the various other truth values it has. It certainly CAN be true, and I'd argue that it is most of the time. For those who have their undies in a bundle about stereotypes and outdated gender roles, I really don't understand why. The problem is not that women and men have distinct skills. They just do; it's a fact, and to argue against it is just foolish. The problem is the value people place on those skills. In the example given, both the warrior and shield roles are important and valuable. They ought to be recognized as such. Physical strength is not better or worse or more or less valuable than emotional strength or fortitude. Both are required for effective perseverence and attainment of success.

So, yeah, women are often warriors and men often shields. The beauty is in the way the two work together for the same ultimate goal.

By the way, great question. I'll continue to reflect upon it for a long time.

Answer 3

Any attempt to make that sweeping a generalization about men and women is bound to be flawed. Are there women who are warriors and men who want to be the warrior's shield? Sure. Is that all men and women? Of course not. Although scientists are finding that there are hard-wired differences between men and women, even those things the experts define and uniquely male or female are not very useful definitions. We are all built from a single set of blue prints. That's why men have nipples. We all have the exact same genetics. What creates the morphological differences is whether or not the genes are turned on or off, in what combination and for how long. Therefore, if you have all the uniquely female traits at one end of a spectrum, all the male traits at the other, inbetween, you'll find the majority of the population along a bell curve, with most of us having more in common than we do differences. Take for example physical strength. It is generally agreed that men are larger and stronger than women. So out of any group of people, chances are the strongest male will be stronger than the strongest female, the second strongest male will be stronger than the second strongest female, etc. HOWEVER, the strongest female will likely be much stronger than than, say, the tenth strongest man. In the long run, the generalization that men are larger and stronger than women does very little in helping understand either individuals or even groups.

Answer 4

Good question....have had to think about it alot tho..cause actually woman isn't smarter than man cause we are all still humans in the end this means that any woman and any man can be smarter or not that's what i think but its widely believed that man is smarter than woman..dunno..but anyway this wont be the reason for why men are the shields its cause women always need protect so i prefer to call men "women's knights" not shields cause that what real man is...A Knight Comes on his horse to take his woman away in place which is romantic and where they can stay alone together for along time..but in danger men take the lead cause most of the women ain't strong enough to take the lead in this cases...that's what i think

Answer 5

I have read about Middle Eastern nomadic tribes where women were great warriors. I never heard of a culture, past or present, where men are shields. Is this an attempt to ask if chivalry is not dead? because it is. It seems that women do not want to be shielded by the men. They can take care of themselves nowadays.

Answer 6

First of all, the question is much too ambiguous to be answered clearly. We all know that the roles that are played by the respective sexes vary widely from one arena of life to another- the roles of a married couple are much different from those between siblings, colleagues, friends, parents/children, etc. What roles we play in relation to each other are different depending on the relationship between the man and woman in question.

Secondly, even if you limit your question to one arena only, such a broad generalization cannot work. There is so much variety between cultures, and even within a single culture, in how men and women relate to one another and function in each other's lives that such a generalization is impossible. Is there a way to really compare the roles of a married couple in an traditional Indian Hindu lifestyle with that of a couple in which the woman is a CEO? The two lifestyles are too radically different for comparison.

All that being said, I think that the quotation wasn't actually trying to make a generalization about all the men and women in the world, but rather to make an insight about the nature of women that might be sometimes overlooked or misinterpreted, and how men relate to that aspect of women. If you do not try too hard to apply the quotation to real life and just take it as an observation about the character of women, then you can appreciate its insight- women do function as warriors in a lot of senses in their day to day lives, though they may often not be recognized as warriors in any sense. Women are often the silent fighters, scaling uphill battles on a daily basis, but doing so as such a matter of routine that nobody takes note of how much aggressiveness and command it takes to do such things. A man can be considered the woman's shield insofar as he is there to protect her from those few things that she cannot protect herself from, or to keep other matters away from her so she can carry on with her ************ uninterrupted. It's a sketchy generalization in any case, but not devoid of truth.

Answer 7

Hmmm, at first glance I didn't agree, the bible says a woman is a man's glory, but it also says that she supports her husband, and we all know that without a support anything will fall, so the analogy of the woman being a warrior "supporting" her shield does hold merit.

Answer 8

Not when there is no man to shield the woman, the woman will become a shield herself

Answer 9

It reminds me of a quote:


Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

-Robert Heinlein

When you think about the traditional role of men and women, it is really are the women who are calling the shots. The women are the ones who support the children, who are the future. The men just work to make sure this keeps happening.

Answer 10

It says in the bible that the woman was created to be the mans help meet. we are supposed to support them and be submissive , and they are supposed to love us as christ loves the church. so would'nt that make the man the warrior and the woman the shield??

Answer 11

of course not true, gladiators, hunters, and soldiers are men even when gender roles are not an issue yet, maybe not in homo sapiens, of course we see it in cat family, but your question must be;

Do you agree that a female lion is the warrior and the male lion is the shield of female lion?

YES ITS TRUE, I AGREE