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Originally Posted by C Elegans ...Personally, I am totally against feminism and all for humanism... |
I enjoyed your entire post, but found this statement encapsulates how I feel overall. Well done.
I don't think anyone doubts that "pockets of resistance" persist here and there in Western societies, where the values and customs of years gone by still hang on. I speak specifically of old-fashioned gender roles and gender-related outlooks. Consider that in the past, this was more the norm, and we find that it simply takes time for society to change. The laws and quotas in my own country serve no purpose other than to inflame and divide, and encourage the existence of special interest groups like NOW (National Organization for Women). Without fuel for their fire, extreme special interest groups would probably vanish, and we might even forget that the entire "PC" nonsense ever exited.
I appreciate the differences between men and women and also understand that anyone is capable of doing whatever they set their minds to accomplish. I was a long distance runner years ago (I'm too lazy now to keep at it
), and the battle against gravity, terrain, and your breathing is a battle you wage in your mind. Much the same with taking care of a 3 month-old baby. An ex-girlfriend of mine was involved in an auto accident and it fell upon me to care for her 3 month-old son while she recovered. She didn't breast-feed him so one problem was already out of the way.
I was his mother and father for 9 months while she learned how to use her arms again in therapy, and I learned alot from that experience. All of the inhibitions I was programmed with as I grew up concerning male roles melted away at 2 o'clock in the morning when he would wake up crying, and I would hold him 'till he went back to sleep.
