Qwerty, don't tell me what I mean or what I am saying please.
No, I did not mean "in other words" that women are more nurturing, compassionate, passive, etc.
I meant what I said. Which is that IMO women have a better understanding of the value of all human life because we do the work that goes into creating that life.
I think my post is perfectly clear and comprehensible. As is my comment on the myth of patriarchy not being that women are men are different but that they are of different value. You do understand that men=superior and women=inferior is a value judgement? You do understand that carrying and birthing a baby is not only an exclusively female experience but also something that mothers actually live and go through? Women risk their health (both physical and mental), their lives, their independence, their safety, their bodily autonomy, themselves when they create life. It is actually quite a big deal and takes up a lot of time and energy. When you have invested that much in something, believe me, you value it - and you have a handle on the understanding that all children have that value.
And there is nothing essentialist or patriarchal on my part in my observation/analysis that girls and women are oppressed as a consequence of our reproductive capacity. I will spell it out for you - what I mean is that men oppress girls and women in order to control our reproductive systems, our ability to create life.
Essentialism is used as a justification for that oppression, to cloak that oppression in smoke and mirrors of women being weak, dirty, lesser, inferior, other, less human and less worthy and in order to peddle the different value myth.
These are perfectly straightforward ideas.