Gender Equality

[Aidan OGain 112]

You are avoiding my question: What exactly have the feminists done for you?

I answered. I get freedom. I get less judgement. I get a sense of helping someone else at the cost of myself. To quote Babylon 5, "the third requirement for sentient life is the ability to sacrifice oneself for a cause, a friend, a loved one. It's the ability to deny our animal biology and make a choice for ourselves." I get to defend and support the women in my life. As far as manly codes, it's a good one. I don't care if they don't need the help. I do it because I believe that women have something very special to contribute to our world. I do it because I want to see what new worlds they will make.

[Commissar Alexer 763]

I answered. I get freedom. I get less judgement. I get a sense of helping someone else at the cost of myself. To quote Babylon 5, "the third requirement for sentient life is the ability to sacrifice oneself for a cause, a friend, a loved one. It's the ability to deny our animal biology and make a choice for ourselves." I get to defend and support the women in my life. As far as manly codes, it's a good one. I don't care if they don't need the help. I do it because I believe that women have something very special to contribute to our world. I do it because I want to see what new worlds they will make.

 

You are living in male-dominated and by men ruled country. And yet, you are a brony and still alive....

 

So women can't defend themsleves or even you? So much for 'we are all equal'...

 

 

You know, i would really see that kind of world....i really want to...

[Aidan OGain 112]

You are living in male-dominated and by men ruled country. And yet, you are a brony and still alive....

 

So women can't defend themsleves or even you? So much for 'we are all equal'...

 

 

You know, i would really see that kind of world....i really want to...

Good, I'm glad you'd like to see it.

Women are perfectly able to defend themselves. They don't need me. But I just enjoy doing it. As for the male dominated country, yeah. But I get less guff from feminists.

[darkwingmare 1,320]

Why equality is called "feminism" and why we need it:

 

The word feminism was coined by Charles Fourier in 1837, a French philosopher who advocated for the emancipation of women because he believed society treated women as slaves. We weren’t allowed to vote, own anything, or work a real job. Women were ruled by their fathers/household patriarch until they married at which time they’d be under the rule of their husband. If a woman did not belong to male household she was shunned by society and had very little means to make money, most of them unsavory. You know the idiom “rule of thumb”? That comes from a running joke that started in the 1600s, and was still around in Fourier’s time, that said it was okay for a man to beat a woman with a stick as long as it wasn’t any thicker than his thumb. 

 

 

The point of the word feminist, and the feminist movement, has never been to say that women are better than men. The point is that women and things associated with women have been given a lesser place in society and we want to bring those things up to a place of equality. The focus is on the feminine because that’s what’s being pushed down. However, focusing on the feminine does not mean we’re focusing only women. Men are belittled and called “less of a man” anytime they portray a trait that is associated with femininity. If women and the feminine were equal to men and masculinity then that wouldn’t happen. Feminism is about raising up things associated with females to have an equal place in society as the things associated with males. It’s called feminism, not equalism, because the focus is on raising up not tearing down. Equalism would suggest that male things need to come down to a lower level so that female things can meet it in the middle. That’s not the point. The point is to raise up the feminine so that it’s on the same playing field that the masculine is already on. We don’t want men to lower themselves, we just want them to make room for us.

Written by great Anonymous. <3

Edited April 24, 2015 by darkwingmare