I FREELY ADMIT MY PREJUDICE
If you haven't noticed there is a lot to be upset about. The list is endless. Among my personal preferences to rant and rave about are:
- Sadistic and psychopathic world leaders
- Hypocritical people who wield power
- Anti intellectuals who celebrate dumbing down
- Business men and women who deliberately pollute for the purposes of saving money
- Justifying all sorts of barbarisms in the name of religion
- All sorts of authorities who while claiming absolute knowledge are fatuous
- Double talkers
- Dissemblers
- Con artists
- Those who act as if corruption is a virtue
- Those who take advantage of other's weaknesses
You all know what I mean. I am also quite certain each of you have your own list. On top of my own personal rant and rave list these days is the world wide subjugation of women by certain men who personally and collectively abuse their authority.
Try as I might to be fairminded and objective about such matters I freely admit my visceral prejudice. To me anyone one over the age of 12 should have the common sense and decency to treat women as equals to men when it comes to the subject o9f basic human rights.
That my position concerning this basic attitude is hardly an obvious fact is clearly demonstrated in the news on any given day.
So what is this about? Really about? Is it that men are basically fearful of the power of women? Is the domination of men over women related to the complexities of sexuality both in its narrow and in its most expanded sense? Is it that men {who wield power and have been abusive for years} fear the potential wrath of great numbers of women for suppressing them fearing if the tables are turned the men will get treatment?
I am all for relativity of opinion and even prejudice up to a point but when it comes to imposing force on whole groups of people in the service of might makes right I draw a line. In my admittedly biased point of view the subjugation of men over women is just plain wrong? Or if it is indeed it is justified I am willing to listen to reason.
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Comments: 18
Nice rant. As to women and men. I think that there are just as many abusive women in positions of authority. That doesn't make it all right for men in position of authority or in the power seat to be abusive.
Joe T: Women may be mean but they are less lethal. And NO. There are not as many women in positions of power.
Here's my answer: Men subjugate women (and abuse children) because they can. It's the first step. Then they go on and try it on other men. Mixed results here.
Then there is the religious ideas that God demands patriarchy because God is a Father ?! ... well, God does not demand anything, but many religions insist so.
Some men have such a sense of superiority that they feel themselves burdened by women that they have to take care of, others enjoy being put into the position of the strong male over the weak female ... some just do not know any better and do what their peers do ...
And then there are just some of us that rather worship women ... at least many of them. :-)
It's only been a few generations since vitamin D, and sources to provide it like cod liver oil, were discovered and given to children. That's why it's now added to milk and other food sources. And by the way, those who slather their little girls with sunscreen need to be sure they otherwise get plenty of vitamin D! Girls and women are now growing up just as strong and capable as boys and men. It's obviously going to take time for the attitudes and stereotypes about women that developed because of this handicap to fade away.
I think that many men still think (or were taught to think) that they are truly superior. After all, women are still working on equality. More likely than an overbearing woman leading men to be abusive/belittling to women is they were taught that by a male in their life. And... Similarly, I think many women put up with it because they saw females in their lives put up with it. Too many people still think this is "normal."
I do believe you have asked the question of the century. I wish I would have seen this article earlier when I had the energy to comment throughly on it. There are so many reasons, most of the ones listed by you and the commenters are all true. This is a topic that could go on forever, I hope the thread doesn't die soon, as I would like to come back tomorrow and explore this with you and others, it is a truly interesting and disturbing subject.
In the mean time I implore you and the readers of this post to check out this link:
http://www.unicef.org/pon97/women1b.htm
gibbs
If women want men to mellow out they should give us more sex.
But my opinion is that there is a manly man cultural thing that equates to a real man is a god and can do anything he wants to with anyone in any circumstances. This is why rich people hate the law and government regulation - they think they are gods, and the rest of us are their subjects, as does anyone with any kind of power ... including women.
The thing is that this sexual thing happened a long time ago in our collective history, way back in time and we should not be so quick to judge it or to demand that it change ... because we do not know what it really is or means.
My point is not to justify male dominance, but to point out that we should shut up and listen to our biology and we would get an answer from that. The problem is that those at the top think they know best what the Earth's environment should be like, and what human society should look like ... and they are always wrong, and the rest of us always pay the price.
> A while back a coworker was out of line with another coworker.
> Instead of apologizing, he came over and talked about the weather.
> After he walked away we were both confused. Another male co-
> worker explained that he had apoligized. That his body language
> said he was saying he was sorry. If he had actually said the words
> "I'm sorry" it would have mean that he was lowing himself below
> women. That's absolutely silly!
I think that is crap. The man who was out of line in going over
to the other guy to talk about the weather was consolodating
his hierarchy in the pecking order. An apology is an apology,
if it was not there he did not do it. He is basically saying to
the other guy, are you going to do anything about it, and
the other guy is eating it.
Second, the guy who explained that to you in my opinion was
insulting you, by referring to women's supposed lower status.
That only works where people allow it to work. And floating
stupid ideas like that to women are one strategy of leading
into insitutionalizeing a mysterious difference between men and
women.
If someone has said if I call someone else sir it makes me lower
than a slave or subservient ... would that make it clearer to you?
Anyway, that's my opinion.
But, if people have a certain biological need to act our certain behaviors and through political correctness we deny that, are we then also doing wrong by making people unhappy, unsatified and miserable just to fit some idea of what we should be?
For example what is out real nature is warlike, can humanity exist satisfactorily without war in our lives ... even though we live ... are we vacating whole areas of our brains and beings?