UPDATE: *winces* Just to let you know, it's 2014 and I have no idea what I was talking about back then and I now disagree with just about every point I made down there.
However, for posterity's sake, I shall let this be here.
I don't have an opinion on a lot of things. I prefer to remain neutral, unless a situation directly affects me and my life, or is something that I have first-hand/reallyreally detailed experience in. For that reason, I'm against the usual way of the world where the US and western Europe seem to have given themselves the right to decide how other countries run their lives, like in Libya. But that's another story.
Today's story is about gender equality, and I do have an opinion on this, because..well, because I have a gender. A lot of people have said a lot of things on this issue, and its a widely accepted fact in today's world that men and women are equal. But are they really? I don't think so. If God, if you believe in Him, or Evolution, if you don't, has created two separate sub-species of humans, it's for a reason. If we're all the same, then there shouldn't be two of us in the first place, because we aren't adding anything new to the world-no one buys two pairs of the same jeans (unless they're really, really awesome jeans. But moving on..).
When people think of equality today, they think of women being able to do the same things as men, for better or worse. But women can't do the same things as men-they are biologically created differently. Men are stronger, women faster. Together they can be faster and stronger, but if a woman sacrifices on her speed to try to gain strength, she'll be nowhere-she won't have the strength of a man no matter how hard she tries (there's a reason women and men compete separately in all sporting events), and she'll be ignoring her own God-gifted talent of speed. Similarly, women are by default created to handle people-children included-better. There are some guys who're great with kids, no doubt, but the majority are too impatient, too testosterone-filled, and simply too inept at handling whiny, crying kids to be able to do the woman's job. They are the hunters, the killers-we, the creators, the nurturers. If a man had to bear children, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have a population problem in the world right now, because they simply aren't born to handle that, to sacrifice their own comfort for another being to the extent that women do (no offence, guys). Similarly, I don't think a woman can effectively kill people on the front line of a war, and then come home and nurture a child. Of course, I strongly believe that women should have the choice to go out and fight on the front line if she wants to, and that a man should be allowed to stay at home and raise kids if he wants to, without facing any social stigma-I just don't think that they'd be effective at it. Equality of choice, I accept; equality of gender, not so much.
Forget being allowed to do or not do certain jobs. Lets talk about treatment. Even today, when women have apparently out done, or at least paralleled, men in every field, are they really treated equally? Chivalry might, for the most part, be dead, but from what I see in the world around me, women are always treated either slightly better, or slightly worse, than men, depending on who they are dealing with. A bus driver will stop for a woman until she has settled down. A man will give her a seat. People in general will be politer to her than they would to a man. Every Mills and Boon novel will have a man's protective instincts roused by a vulnerable woman. On the other hand, there are innumerable more rapes and atrocities against women than men. Men who were once, a long, long time ago, the protectors of women, now take advantage of their 'weakness'.
What I'm saying is-men and women are created differently. A horse doesn't do a dog's work, nor a dog a horse's. A horse might be bigger and stronger, but the dog has its own value. Trying to ride on a dog will just make both of us fall over, while no sane person would use a horse to guard their house at night. There are millions of things men can do which women can't-open a jar, for one, and millions more that women can do that men can't-like deal with people effectively and compassionately. Each of them has their own place in society, their own function which they are meant to fulfill to maintain the balance in nature. Each individual is created differently, so there are obviously feminine men and masculine women who might tilt the balance and trespass successfully on the other gender's territory, and obviously there are some areas where their territories overlap and they are equal, but for the most part...for the most part, a woman will look to a man to open a jar, and a man to a woman to calm a crying baby. And that's the way God made it.
Note: In case it isn't clear, I by no means advocate that women are less than men, just that they are strong in different areas than men are. Nor do I advocate that women should stay at home and make babies-on the contrary, I think financial independence is imperative for women, especially in today's man-eat-man world where the men seem to be forgetting that they were made to protect, not harm women. A woman should be able to survive on her own, and be self sufficient, and she is capable of doing that-but in an ideal situation she shouldn't have to, when a man and woman work together, in a symbiotic relationship both supporting and being supported by, the other. Since this isn't an ideal world, however, women should have the opportunity to fend for themselves since their defenders don't seem to inclined to do that job, and hence I think gender equality in the workplace is an essential and wonderful thing. Don't get me wrong-I'm not trying to say that a woman can't open a jar, just that she wouldn't have to, and that if she does, she'd probably have to put in a little more effort than a man would. Men and women can be the same, but they shouldn't have to be.
~Sam
Also. WATCH THIS.
However, for posterity's sake, I shall let this be here.
I don't have an opinion on a lot of things. I prefer to remain neutral, unless a situation directly affects me and my life, or is something that I have first-hand/reallyreally detailed experience in. For that reason, I'm against the usual way of the world where the US and western Europe seem to have given themselves the right to decide how other countries run their lives, like in Libya. But that's another story.
Today's story is about gender equality, and I do have an opinion on this, because..well, because I have a gender. A lot of people have said a lot of things on this issue, and its a widely accepted fact in today's world that men and women are equal. But are they really? I don't think so. If God, if you believe in Him, or Evolution, if you don't, has created two separate sub-species of humans, it's for a reason. If we're all the same, then there shouldn't be two of us in the first place, because we aren't adding anything new to the world-no one buys two pairs of the same jeans (unless they're really, really awesome jeans. But moving on..).
When people think of equality today, they think of women being able to do the same things as men, for better or worse. But women can't do the same things as men-they are biologically created differently. Men are stronger, women faster. Together they can be faster and stronger, but if a woman sacrifices on her speed to try to gain strength, she'll be nowhere-she won't have the strength of a man no matter how hard she tries (there's a reason women and men compete separately in all sporting events), and she'll be ignoring her own God-gifted talent of speed. Similarly, women are by default created to handle people-children included-better. There are some guys who're great with kids, no doubt, but the majority are too impatient, too testosterone-filled, and simply too inept at handling whiny, crying kids to be able to do the woman's job. They are the hunters, the killers-we, the creators, the nurturers. If a man had to bear children, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have a population problem in the world right now, because they simply aren't born to handle that, to sacrifice their own comfort for another being to the extent that women do (no offence, guys). Similarly, I don't think a woman can effectively kill people on the front line of a war, and then come home and nurture a child. Of course, I strongly believe that women should have the choice to go out and fight on the front line if she wants to, and that a man should be allowed to stay at home and raise kids if he wants to, without facing any social stigma-I just don't think that they'd be effective at it. Equality of choice, I accept; equality of gender, not so much.
Forget being allowed to do or not do certain jobs. Lets talk about treatment. Even today, when women have apparently out done, or at least paralleled, men in every field, are they really treated equally? Chivalry might, for the most part, be dead, but from what I see in the world around me, women are always treated either slightly better, or slightly worse, than men, depending on who they are dealing with. A bus driver will stop for a woman until she has settled down. A man will give her a seat. People in general will be politer to her than they would to a man. Every Mills and Boon novel will have a man's protective instincts roused by a vulnerable woman. On the other hand, there are innumerable more rapes and atrocities against women than men. Men who were once, a long, long time ago, the protectors of women, now take advantage of their 'weakness'.
What I'm saying is-men and women are created differently. A horse doesn't do a dog's work, nor a dog a horse's. A horse might be bigger and stronger, but the dog has its own value. Trying to ride on a dog will just make both of us fall over, while no sane person would use a horse to guard their house at night. There are millions of things men can do which women can't-open a jar, for one, and millions more that women can do that men can't-like deal with people effectively and compassionately. Each of them has their own place in society, their own function which they are meant to fulfill to maintain the balance in nature. Each individual is created differently, so there are obviously feminine men and masculine women who might tilt the balance and trespass successfully on the other gender's territory, and obviously there are some areas where their territories overlap and they are equal, but for the most part...for the most part, a woman will look to a man to open a jar, and a man to a woman to calm a crying baby. And that's the way God made it.
Note: In case it isn't clear, I by no means advocate that women are less than men, just that they are strong in different areas than men are. Nor do I advocate that women should stay at home and make babies-on the contrary, I think financial independence is imperative for women, especially in today's man-eat-man world where the men seem to be forgetting that they were made to protect, not harm women. A woman should be able to survive on her own, and be self sufficient, and she is capable of doing that-but in an ideal situation she shouldn't have to, when a man and woman work together, in a symbiotic relationship both supporting and being supported by, the other. Since this isn't an ideal world, however, women should have the opportunity to fend for themselves since their defenders don't seem to inclined to do that job, and hence I think gender equality in the workplace is an essential and wonderful thing. Don't get me wrong-I'm not trying to say that a woman can't open a jar, just that she wouldn't have to, and that if she does, she'd probably have to put in a little more effort than a man would. Men and women can be the same, but they shouldn't have to be.
~Sam
Also. WATCH THIS.
wow sam.. i liked it :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, whoever you are :)
ReplyDelete