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Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since scylla first faced charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of god, to men.

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Man's World' And 'woman's Place' Have Confronted

Elizabeth Janeway

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since scylla first faced charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of god, to men.

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This is what the church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the scylla and charybdis of aye and no.

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Here's the pay paradox that why men earn more explains: men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). the opposite is true for women: women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

In our work, we are always between scylla and charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.

He talks about the scylla of atheism and the charybdis of christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.

From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. when his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. so why call her bad? from her, kings are born. from woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all.

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