Quote: (05-10-2015 05:32 PM)L M McCoy Wrote:
I firmly believe that if you all understood what women went through to get where they are today you all would have a different opinion of women; albeit there are many things that need to change that haven't for women to truly be equal in today's society such as the wage issue.
I will be sharing an article with you today and what better day considering today is mother's day ! I hope everyone's opinions towards women here haven't effected their relationships with their mothers.
This segment will cover the time period from 1848-1920. There will be multiple segments and I will start off slowly so I don't bombard you with too much information
please be respectful as I have taken time out of my busy day to do this-thanks! If you disagree do so politely and please state why.
http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and...ns-Rights/
please copy the URL above, read the article, and discuss
I will be back later tonight to write about what I took from the article and what moved me.
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I firmly believe that if you all understood what women went through to get where they are today you all would have a different opinion of women; albeit there are many things that need to change that haven't for women to truly be equal in today's society such as the wage issue.
Had women been equal to men on men's terms, no one would have to understand "what women went through" because they would have built half the society and engineered the laws and stood equal to begin with.
But the fact is that men and women are biologically different. Men birth societies. Women birth people.
Women didn't have a stake in the world men built because their biological role was different.
They were already doing something equally as important if not more important: bringing to life actual humans. Only they can do this.
Shoehorning women into men's roles is actually demeaning to women, not empowering. It's also ruined our birthrate and decimated Western society. A society that doesn't value women's biological roles is a society on the decline. It's a shame women -- self-hating ones, anyway -- are doing this.
Claiming women are "unequal" and men are oppressors makes for a nice media soundbite, but it ignores the biological roles that stretch back to the dawn of time. Men were not oppressing. They were building. Women were not being oppressed. They were raising the next generation of humans.
Feminists act as if we always worked in offices and the world was always as it is now. It wasn't. Someone had to build it. Those people were men, and this is why they get the so-called spoils -- because they built the foundation. It's also why women get preferential treatment in family court: the children came from their bodies and say what you will, we all know this instinctively.
Modern women's continuous legal wrangling with men turned society into a huge divorce court, where they expect judges to mete them out various benefits "because equality."
While the concept of equality is an admirable one (and I am not arguing against paying women and men the same for the exact same work), the sexes cannot be equal. That's because they are different. Society's denial of this and the weird mechanisms put in place to attempt to make men and women "equal" is becoming our downfall.
Finally, we're all kidding ourselves anyway.
Men might build civilizations, but stronger men and/or Mother Nature can wreck them. We're all at the mercy of forces beyond our control to some degree.
If an army invades or there is a deep freeze or a hurricane, see how fast everyone shakes off the veneer of equality and reverts back to "gender norms," with men doing battle and women shielding the kids from the elements.