Is it a male victory in society that they are perceived to only want sex and aggression?

Question

According to Freud (important note there, according to FREUD) the ID drives us all, and also, all the ID wants is sex and aggression. Now if men in society are thought to want those two things way more than women, in your opinion/Freud's opinion, would it be a male victory that we can achieve that so much easier than women without as many social repercussions etc?

I find that interesting that men have been whitled down to such enjoyable steryotypes while women seem to have gotten the short end of the stick

Answer 1

Yes.

=)

Honestly.

Answer 2

Well. I guess to some men it would be considered a victory, but personally I don't think men and women should be in a competition. They were made to be partners and to help each other through life. I guess in one way society is much easier on men when it comes to sex and agression. We seem to expect those things from men. Personally, I feel that there is a lot more to me as a man than those things. I feel like men should act like men and be protective of women. Sorry, if offended any feminists, but I'm a bit old fashioned when it comes to this subject.

Answer 3

Freud has been largely discredited. His tripartite formula of the human psyche (Id, Ego, Superego) is useful to a point, but none of it has ever been proven.
Anyway, Freud never taught that the id only wants sex and aggression. It wants instant gratification, and that could be a milky titty as much as anything else. You'd be wise to read more about psychology. I suggest Eric Ericsson.

Answer 4

Well, it is true that male and female brains are wired somewhat differently, but I think our behavior in large part is due to our genetics. Our ancient ancestors were hunter-gatherers, which called for constant hunting and killing. Only the most aggressive were able to breed. So it became ingrained in our species that males would go out and find food, then bring it back to the campfire to be consumed by the clan. Women ussually could not effectively hunt and care for nursing babies at the same time. So over the millenia it became the man's job to bring home the bacon and the woman's job to cook it.

We really haven't changed much psychologically over the course of human development and that's where the problems start. Because in today's world the woman is more apt to be found out foraging as is the man. So conflicts arise between the sexes as we try to redefine our roles. An example was my sister and brother-in-law. They were happily married with a small son when my brother-in-law got drafted into the army and sent off to the Vietnam war for thirteen months. Before he left for the service he was clearly the head of the household. But during the course of the year he was gone my sister had to learn how to cope with earning a living as well as taking care of her son and herself. She learned she could do it, and do it pretty darn well. Then when Johnny came marching home he found a new dynamic was at work in his home. And it was hard to adjust, for both him and my sister.

As time went on it became clear their roles had to be redefined. And he was not happy about it. With men, when we are presented with problems we cannot seem to solve with reasoning then we sometimes revert back to our old hunter-gatherer modes. Sometimes violence occurs. But, I don't think it is sexual aggression per se, but frustration that sometimes takes a sexual means as an outlet for other frustrating aspects of our lives. By the way, they never did reconcile their new found differences and finally wound up divorcing.

We try to be intellectual and civilized, but in the end we are what we are, animals.

Answer 5

You must be a man. I think stereotypes can be constraining and in many ways a waste of talent and I do not think they will help humanity in the long run, unless you want to revert to living in trees and casting the scientific progress that we have made down the toilet.

Answer 6

I think that Freud is a fruitcake (who is it?) and women are trying to overpower society b/c they have "rights", blah, blah, blah... I'm a woman and I like the whole man-in-charge bit. Let the rest of the lesbos have the responsibility and the whipped men. Give me a real man that has confidence and can stand for himself. Ok, done preaching.