Tuesday 28 September 2010

The Different Types of Competition

On the whole matter of the different types of competition, people of all political persuasions, have tended to monofy, over-simplify, and blur and merge categories of various types of competition, through lack of information, knowledge, and understanding. These political people in the past, have repeatedly argued, claimed, and said, that all competition is very much and completely male-dominated, and a very patriarchal way of thinking, feeling, and behaving, which causes and creates war, inequalities, bullying, and abuse, whilst many people who claimed and said all this in the past, were in my experience of them, very aggressively competitive people themselves, and in that way and manner, totally contradictory and hypocrites.

Exploitative competition, without some clear and solid civility, boundaries, and ground rules, can indeed involve and lead to abuse and bullying, but other types of competition are very important, fine, and without them we would never progress as individuals, nor as a society and a human race, and the newly-elected local female Conservative MP very clearly states and recognises on her website, that free co-operation and some altruism or mutual aid between people in society, are also very important as well.

Exploitative and/or aggressive competition, again, without some clear and solid civility, personal boundaries, and ground rules, is often presented as atomistic, interpersonal, and purely individual, when in actual fact, it is a form of extreme group-conformity, loss or diminishing of important intrinsic and social individuality, and in these ways a very dangerous, unethical, immoral, form of social control.

One such different type of competition, which is very important, is moral competition, and which is about competing against social injustices, and righting wrongs, and very democratic types of competition, such as the kinds which are necessary in free speech an debate, are also very important.

Some forms of competition, are very hierarchical, and not competition in the true individual and social sense of the term or terms, such as when people compete for a third person, group or party, to overall benefit and take all the winnings and credit, for their hard work and efforts, and in that way denying the individual of their own potential credits and success; but again, I am in no way assuming, that the local newly-elected Conservative MP is arguing for, nor advocating this kind of false or pseudo-competition, because from what I’ve read on her website, she very clearly isn’t advocating or saying this at all.

Whilst it is very stupid, false, and ignorant, to say that all competition is male-dominated, patriarchal, and that it all involves or leads to abuse and bullying, it is true that there are different types of competition between women and men, and that there are some gender variations and clear differences at times. For example, in relationships and debate, women tend to focus - and many men say over-focus - on content and isolated or petty details, whilst men tend to focus on mechanisms, major themes, and form. Men will therefore, tend to compete for and towards, individual or social pure ideals, ideas, and forms, and major individual and social goals, whereas women tend to compete more for principles and ideas in terms of their actual existence, being, and mental and physical sensations and passions.

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