My Views on Genderism/Sexism
Society still does it. Young boys are trained to be aggressive and macho, while young girls are trained to be passive and complacent. What we aren't teaching young girls and young boys enough of is how to be assertive, individualistic, and non-conformist.
Females and males have every right to stand up for their personal human rights. Whether it's a qualified male battling affirmative action because he was passed over for employment due to a gender quota or a qualified female battling the military hierarchy because she is denied the opportunity to serve in combat due to her gender - - such restrictive prejudices must be eliminated for both women and men alike!
EXAMPLES . . .
There was once a time when American women were denied the right to vote soley based on their gender. Such an imposed limitation was ridiculous! Women should have been able to vote since the birth of this country! Females are humans just like males.
Today, men are expected to be in compliance with Selective Service solely based on our gender. This traces back to the archaic expectation that males must be virile and aggressive, thus stomping on individuality. Selective Service should not be in existence (shame on you, Jimmy Carter and the Congress/Supreme Court of 1981, for re-instating it!)
Equality works both ways. Males and females should be subject to equal standards - - for car insurance rates, for employment wages, when qualifying for military service, and so on.
Females and males must quit generalizing each other's gender and stop making insensitive, sexist "jokes" at each other's expense. It only reflects the sexism echoing through society. Whatever happened to common courtesy?!
If you don't give common courtesy, you cannot expect it in return!
The "gender wars" will continue until society stops setting the stage for "battles of the sexes." Rather than pitting the female and male genders against each other, I would think we'd want to encourage males and females to work together.
And no, I do not believe in co-ed bathrooms.
True gender equality cannot be achieved until both genders are recognized as societal equals. Neither females nor males are "the weaker sex", despite what so many male chauvanists and female chauvanists try to pound into people's heads.
There is no "superior sex."
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