Today I have been trying to understand feminism, to be honest I have been trying to understand it for a long time and how its relevant in today's society. Now before I go any further, this is not very well thought through and I have left so, so much out but I am trying to get it posted before lunch is over, so I have not covered everything and probably never will. I also don't know how many of you will agree or give me jip for this but I am going to stick my neck out anyway! I am sure Dimples will set me straight.
I was directed from this at Joanne's Blog to the Wikipedia description of Feminism, which I duly read, digested and guess what... I am still no clearer. Yes I do understand what women went through to get where they are today and that should never be forgotten, I also understand that there is still, even tho we are in the middle of the first decade of 2000, oppressive things that happen to women in certain parts of society, religion and in specific countries because they are women, but lets not get carried away here, men get dumped on too. I am not inherently or cognitively oppressive to women and see them as equal but I do feel like I am being tarred with this brush and the feminist movement is painting me as a bad person, just because I happened to be born with a cock.
This prompted me to look at Masculism and it raises some interesting points that you can read up on if you wish. What I took away from it was that we now have a "culture that conditions males to feel bad about being male".
I have had a completely different experience from what feminists seem to be pissed at. I am currently Office Manager for an advertising company and guess what, my boss is a women, my last job was as a Valuer for an estate agency and guess what, yeah, my boss was a women. Shocking aint it??! So I have seen the other side of the coin and I will tell you now, women can be tough and can make it in the business world if they so desire. The ladies in question have been good at what they do, ambitious and ruthless. Dare I say that feminists should stop complaining and get some ambition, take the men on in the powerful positions game because I am sure you can make it too. Well maybe, if you spent less time moaning!
Now that may all seem a little harsh but I am trying to make a point and that is, what are we men to do? How are we to treat women? Today you want to be boss, tomorrow you want to be made to feel secure and cuddled and god forbid we get it wrong and suffer the lecture of the feminist. We get it wrong because there is no consistency, today a feminist, tomorrow a little girl lost. *sigh* Can we just not all live together, recognise that men and women are physically and mentally different, with individual personalities and put our energy in to making a better tomorrow instead of trashing ALL men? Right, put your lasers on kill and come and get me ladies...
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