Hookers, A Pregnant Man & Feminism
A look at the state of our gender as Women's History Month comes to a close.
Women have been hot in the headlines this month. Here, we’ve pulled together a handy round up of March’s top female-focused stories—good, bad and impregnated:
The good:
• Sarah Jessica Parker doesn’t let Maxim’s “Unsexiest Woman” title get under her skin
• The trucking industry recruits women
• Female-friendly porn finding fans in Australia
• Men grow increasingly willing to share household duties with their wives
The bad:
• Spitzer’s romp with call girl Ashley/“Kristen” ends his tenure as governor of New York
• Young British girls go ga-ga for Missbimbo online game
• Elizabeth Wurtzel uses Hillary Clinton and Silda Wall Spitzer’s reputations to question feminism’s progress in the LA Times
• Women are still being forced into marriage
The pregnant:
• A transgendered man is with child
• Army wives, strapped for cash, turn to surrogate motherhood
• UK woman gives birth to child borne from dead husband’s sperm
Discussion
On its surface, the modern Feminist movement purports to protect the rights of women from male oppression, often associating itself with the civil rights movement of African- Americans. But this faulty rationale fails to recognize the difference between unjust oppression and healthy restriction; limiting a gender’s job responsibilities based on natural capacity is not the same as limiting a racial group’s opportunities based on appearance.
As a result, women find themselves living in a general state of fear—emotionally unsatisfied, lacking personal security and direction. Their relationships are characterized by bitter power struggles over leadership and resentful negotiations of gender roles. Not surprisingly, these unstable unions often fail, contributing to the epidemic divorce rate and mounting social isolation felt in America.
If men want to stand up and do something about it, there is a free ebook online detailing exactly what they can do in their lives to address the dangerous hypocrisy of Feminism which threatens to eat away at their civil rights, one double standard at a time: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21733512/Principles-101
I don't think that the divorce rate is high because equality has made marriages more miserable. The divorce rate is high because people have always been in miserable marriages and now they finally have a way out. Frankly, I'm not worried about the divorce rate. I think it will slowly stabilize and decline once society accepts that marriage should be a partnership of equals and not a socio-economic status symbol.
Also, I disagree that women live in a constant state of fear lacking direction. I'd like to see some statistics or hard evidence for this baseless assertion.
And actually Feminism wasn't about male oppression, it was about equality. If you think people should be paid equally for the same work regardless of gender, you are a feminist. And I don't think its time to start crying about "male oppression" when women still earn less to the male dollar. Your rationale is just a smoke screen for gendered stereotypes based upon faulty science. Who is to say women aren't genetically capable of certain tasks when science can't decide if its genetics or sociological conditioning. Until we have those answers, its best to give equal opportunity for all regardless of race or gender.
Of course, there is one way for guys to feel pregnant for 24 hours -- and it is fully reversible!
Try one of those Velco-reinforced pregnancy suits:
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/working_stiff/index.php/2007/07/0...
