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Sometimes I think
Feb. 11th, 2012 11:49 amfeminism is a bit ridiculous.
I'm not sure men and women working equally, doing exactly the same jobs, doing each other's jobs just as good as each other, is "equality," so to speak.
Animals don't play the same roles as each other. Male and female animals do different things, play different roles. Is that social conditioning? Really?
I feel like, if there are clear biological differences (which, duh, there are), then giving each person an equal share of everything doesn't necessarily dictate that in the overall scheme of things, they're equal. If you give a rabbit a carrot and your dog a carrot, is that equal? I don't think so.
I don't think asking guys, who fundamentally have more physical strength, to help more with physical jobs is "unfair" or "looking down" on women. I understand there has been real discrimination in the past, but a lot of stuff I hear at Berkeley being called chauvinistic, I personally don't really see as such. And yes, women can work out until we are just as strong as men. But we have to work harder to get to that same point, due to physiological differences! So if you're equally as strong, but you worked harder to get there, are you really equal?
I'm not trying to say women and men are unequal. I'm trying to say they're different. And the "equality" society and feminism are currently trying to impose upon them don't seem that equal to me.
I'm not sure men and women working equally, doing exactly the same jobs, doing each other's jobs just as good as each other, is "equality," so to speak.
Animals don't play the same roles as each other. Male and female animals do different things, play different roles. Is that social conditioning? Really?
I feel like, if there are clear biological differences (which, duh, there are), then giving each person an equal share of everything doesn't necessarily dictate that in the overall scheme of things, they're equal. If you give a rabbit a carrot and your dog a carrot, is that equal? I don't think so.
I don't think asking guys, who fundamentally have more physical strength, to help more with physical jobs is "unfair" or "looking down" on women. I understand there has been real discrimination in the past, but a lot of stuff I hear at Berkeley being called chauvinistic, I personally don't really see as such. And yes, women can work out until we are just as strong as men. But we have to work harder to get to that same point, due to physiological differences! So if you're equally as strong, but you worked harder to get there, are you really equal?
I'm not trying to say women and men are unequal. I'm trying to say they're different. And the "equality" society and feminism are currently trying to impose upon them don't seem that equal to me.
