Men and women are NOT equal. They were never meant to be. If they were, we wouldn’t have had any after the first two. They are not. Nor biologically, neither intellectually.
Its not a question of being superior or inferior, because they think and react in two skewed lines and any comparison is inherently impossible.
But, the problem of women being stepped over in modern society lies somewhere else. I’m concerned mostly with the social aspect of the issue, so let us concentrate on that only.
The earliest form of interaction, and probably the deepest one, between the male and female of the human species was by sex, and not out of love, but out of the urge for reproduction, growing in numbers, form a larger pack that brought a greater sense of security.
Now, this need was both ways. Prehistoric humans being weaker than most of the beasts around, wanted the pack to be as big as possible as quickly as possible. This is observed among ants, bees, mice and a lot of smaller and weaker species.
Now, biologically while a male can fertilize ten females at a short span or rather participate in growing a pack by ten, a woman can, at a time take part in only one. Also, this rendered them unable to perform for some time, a lot of other natural actions, like hunting, fishing, chopping firewood, that required physical exertions. And thus, duties had to be divided according to gender. Automatically, men were doing the ‘outdoor’ jobs, while women were doing the ‘household’ chores.
Mind you, the prehistoric man had no doubt about the prehistoric woman’s abilities to hunt, fish or chop firewood. He didn’t think the women did it better or worse. Rather, he didn’t think being able to do it better or not had anything to do with being a woman at all. It was just that at that point reproduction was of utmost importance and whatever time could be used for breeding called for it.
But…. the women did their job too well. They grew so good and efficient at what they did, it brought in the obvious vice. Everyone forgot the original importance and purpose of the job.
You see, no one wonders about processes that go on too smoothly.
However, for reasons we need not go into, the humans civilized.
At least, the men decided that they did. And then, as it was, the need for reproduction was not as imminent. So the men had to devise new reasons to fit to his comfort. They did not feel up to accepting the new ways of thinking women introduced in the things they have been doing for so long.
Very few of us, can, in fact accept or defend the new.
But, this was terribly unfortunate for the human civilization, mostly because of two reasons.
Whenever I see a staunch feminist movement, the thing that pains me most is the tremendous wastage of energy that is so evident. Don’t get me wrong here. I’m not saying I don’t realize the necessity of those. I just feel that it is unfortunate that they have to do this. I mean, people with so much calibre and intelligence has to spend so much positive energy just so that the society can have their worth!!! Why don’t we realize how much we miss out on because of the energy wasted by this?
It is true that the outstanding women boldly moves forward and at the top of the social ladder. But the amount of fight they have to waste just to make their voice heard, deprives the society of so much more they could tell it.
The tragedy is that the society never realizes they wasted a great resource because it was busy thinking it was pitying her.
The other loss was even more fatal. If we look up the history, matriarchal societies scarcely had grievances among its men for being stepped over. This is probably because women are inherently better at optimizing the utilization of resources, which again, they have been doing since prehistoric time.
Perhaps, on the whole they understand it better than men that it is not important for the society if the driver is male or female. A human society requires certain human qualities in the driver which does not involve breeding. That is why all the while men are busy giving women ‘fair chances’, WE all are actually losing out on half of the best prospective drivers of humankind.
I guess its high time chauvinism or feminism grew out of style.
The key to the next renaissance of the human society does not lie in realizing men and women are equal.
It is in realizing exactly WHERE they are different.
Its not a question of being superior or inferior, because they think and react in two skewed lines and any comparison is inherently impossible.
But, the problem of women being stepped over in modern society lies somewhere else. I’m concerned mostly with the social aspect of the issue, so let us concentrate on that only.
The earliest form of interaction, and probably the deepest one, between the male and female of the human species was by sex, and not out of love, but out of the urge for reproduction, growing in numbers, form a larger pack that brought a greater sense of security.
Now, this need was both ways. Prehistoric humans being weaker than most of the beasts around, wanted the pack to be as big as possible as quickly as possible. This is observed among ants, bees, mice and a lot of smaller and weaker species.Now, biologically while a male can fertilize ten females at a short span or rather participate in growing a pack by ten, a woman can, at a time take part in only one. Also, this rendered them unable to perform for some time, a lot of other natural actions, like hunting, fishing, chopping firewood, that required physical exertions. And thus, duties had to be divided according to gender. Automatically, men were doing the ‘outdoor’ jobs, while women were doing the ‘household’ chores.
Mind you, the prehistoric man had no doubt about the prehistoric woman’s abilities to hunt, fish or chop firewood. He didn’t think the women did it better or worse. Rather, he didn’t think being able to do it better or not had anything to do with being a woman at all. It was just that at that point reproduction was of utmost importance and whatever time could be used for breeding called for it.
But…. the women did their job too well. They grew so good and efficient at what they did, it brought in the obvious vice. Everyone forgot the original importance and purpose of the job.
You see, no one wonders about processes that go on too smoothly.
However, for reasons we need not go into, the humans civilized.
At least, the men decided that they did. And then, as it was, the need for reproduction was not as imminent. So the men had to devise new reasons to fit to his comfort. They did not feel up to accepting the new ways of thinking women introduced in the things they have been doing for so long.
Very few of us, can, in fact accept or defend the new.
But, this was terribly unfortunate for the human civilization, mostly because of two reasons.
Whenever I see a staunch feminist movement, the thing that pains me most is the tremendous wastage of energy that is so evident. Don’t get me wrong here. I’m not saying I don’t realize the necessity of those. I just feel that it is unfortunate that they have to do this. I mean, people with so much calibre and intelligence has to spend so much positive energy just so that the society can have their worth!!! Why don’t we realize how much we miss out on because of the energy wasted by this?
It is true that the outstanding women boldly moves forward and at the top of the social ladder. But the amount of fight they have to waste just to make their voice heard, deprives the society of so much more they could tell it.
The tragedy is that the society never realizes they wasted a great resource because it was busy thinking it was pitying her.
The other loss was even more fatal. If we look up the history, matriarchal societies scarcely had grievances among its men for being stepped over. This is probably because women are inherently better at optimizing the utilization of resources, which again, they have been doing since prehistoric time.
Perhaps, on the whole they understand it better than men that it is not important for the society if the driver is male or female. A human society requires certain human qualities in the driver which does not involve breeding. That is why all the while men are busy giving women ‘fair chances’, WE all are actually losing out on half of the best prospective drivers of humankind.
I guess its high time chauvinism or feminism grew out of style.
The key to the next renaissance of the human society does not lie in realizing men and women are equal.
It is in realizing exactly WHERE they are different.
3 comments:
The question is not whether men are superior than women, or whether they lack behind...ofcourse not.. The question is, are you man enough to respect a woman?
There is really nothing to add to this. Absolutely right. One thing I always feel is that cultures that don't give women true equal rights will always be economically hindered, because they are destroying half their national human resources. In some cases, the better half.
Nice logic bro!
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