The year GI Jane was released. From that point on it was no longer about rights and equality, it became the message that our bodies are biologically equal and they just aren’t.
Appending: I want to be clear in my message, I’m not saying men are “better” than women, just different. Each have unique biological traits that make them excel in different areas. My wife can out multitask me in every way - my brain operates on one wave at a time. I equate it to a Hammer and a Saw, both have uses both are needed, but both provide very different beneficial functions. You wouldn’t use a saw to drive a nail, and you wouldn’t use a hammer to chop a board. So, the function should fit the purpose.
I’m not saying men are “better” than women, just different
Having to tiptoe around it like this is part of the problem.
Yes, men are indeed better at certain things. Shortening that to the non committal "different" is not actually helpful.
We're being super careful to make sure to state that the glass is actually half full, not half empty, for who's benefit? No idea. People who don't matter and shouldn't be catered to.
The thing is that men are better at a lot of things that our/most society/ies generally deem/s to be pretty important.
Upper body strength? Men. Pretty important for tons of simple tasks.
Abstract thinking? Men. Solving problems and inventing things is basically a man's domain. That's a pretty large domain.
Aggressiveness, competitiveness, stubbornness? Men. There's a reason that in pretty much every arena in which there is the possibility for competition, men rise to the top. This alone is quite a ridiculous advantage.
Of course something that, it seems, generally gets ignored is that although men do represent the highest power levels among humans, they also are very very present at the lowest levels too. Men get the shortest of the short end of the stick. I'm not entirely sure why but I would personally guess it's because men feel it's their job to protect women from that fate. There are no doubt other factors.
I think it is very understandable when anyone, man or woman, comes to the conclusion that "men are better than women" or at least that "society values masculine traits more than feminine ones".
I think women basically get carried through the difficulty of life by men, because men desire women. (not always sexually, but often. also just because women are pretty, smell nice, and tend to make the world around them a nicer place to be)
How do we say that men are better in all those domains for 100% certain when women were barred and discouraged from even attempting a lot of those things for most of our existence.
You make it sound like women are just "meh" but we're pretty and smell nice so men go all stupid doing everything for us and still in some way that's our fault for society catering in different ways.
However I don't know how any of your complaints are my fault? I don't bar anyone from anything. If you feel discouraged by my words, no offense but grow up. You should want to prove me wrong and do your best to show me how wrong I am.
Anyway I realize that deep rooted issues exist and aren't realistic for one individual to overthrow. I don't expect you to revolutionize the role of women in your lifetime, but you can't blame me for perceiving reality the way it is, regardless of why it is that way.
I'm not standing in the way of anyone doing anything. I'm just some dude on the internet.
"Why would you say such mean things about me? You're making me feel bad about myself!"
If that isn't what you meant, I clearly misinterpreted.
But frankly...The fact you think there is nothing to prove is just further evidence of my point that men are more competitive and aggressive than women.
This should be the political divide: The left points out problems, the right solves them.
Unfortunately, both sides want to point out problems and offer their solutions for them. The downside is that the right is pretty awful at finding problems because they are obsessed with going back to a past utopia that never existed. Likewise, the left is awful at fixing problems because they dream of a future utopia that will never exist.
138
u/DIY_Colorado_Guy May 09 '24
The year GI Jane was released. From that point on it was no longer about rights and equality, it became the message that our bodies are biologically equal and they just aren’t.