I know it’s been a while since I posted. I haven’t run out of ideas – I promise you that! It’s just that school is a good one for taking over lives. Literally and metaphorically.
Moving on.
I was reading ‘The Punch’ today, a highly funny (at times) and insightful news page when I came across this headline article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/confessions-of-a-young-anti-feminist/
Basically it’s all about our roles in society – Men and women that is – and them being not only re-enforced by our own culture, but also it being physiological. Now there is no point at which I proclaim to be feminist. In fact, I think that Men in our society are being suppressed.
Ladies, take a step back. What can we do? We can have freedom of sexuality (although still being accepted by society, we are making our way there with it – Discuss.), we have freedom in work choice (there isn’t many glass ceilings anymore are there?), we have freedom in clothing (now seriously – can you imagine a man wearing a dress or skirt without being looked at sideways? No! And we can wear pants, yes?) and freedom of spirit (ok, I was scooping at the bottom of the barrel here – how many Gypsy or Tarot Card reader men do you know? Just ignore the whole men priest thing and male monks thing).
So. Now you’re all thinking, ‘Hey! She’s on the guys side!’ – Well no. Yes, we have had more than our fair share of suppression. And yes, I do appreciated THE FEM burning all her nice bras back in the first days of feminism. However, to be a successful and ‘stand above the rest’ sort of society, we must move towards the next stage – Equality. Sure, yes we still have pay equality problems with men on average earning more than women in the same positions, and even though I joke about the fact that there isn’t a glass ceiling anymore, I’m going to do a Mr. Routely favourite and contradict myself – there is still levels in which women struggle to get past in the big businesses.
In trying to research a little for this, I do what everyone else would do: Google it.
Type in ‘Female Bosses’. The first thing I find? (OK, so i cannot put my screen shot in...follow the link....) http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=female+bosses&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=6YvzTNDkJYvEvQPi45j3DQ
Well, I now ask myself suddenly, is our society looking for equality? This leads back to ‘The Punch’ article. Perhaps, physiologically we are set in our ways? Sure, bringing up the family is difficult work, but it’s in our nature to be Motherly and nurture our children. Isn’t that satisfying for us? Sure, it’s difficult for men to be a work earning the $$$, but is it not built into them to want to protect and look after their family in that way? To provide? All the way back to cavemen, we see them out hunting and gathering food for their family, mum at home cooking.
Yes, there will always be exceptions to every rule, and a differing situation for every person. But is to fit into our so called ‘gender roles some sort of instinct built into our genes?
I leave you with this question, quote ‘The Punch’ –
“Is it becoming unacceptable in our society for women to rely on men and take pride in abilities defined as gender roles?”
