RE: Men's Rights Movement
December 21, 2017 at 1:16 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2017 at 1:18 pm by bennyboy.)
I'd like to point out that I think the way the society is stratified leads to a lot of unfairness.
First of all, the richest, most powerful people in the US are clearly men. Just to balance out male / female average worth in the US, you'd have to screw 75% of men, i.e. those who are normal wage-earners. But I'd say those 75% are as much a victim of the right white men as anyone else is, including poor black women-- their opportunities are more and more limited as union jobs disappear, and they have less and less say in how the country is run.
Also, competition from women in the job market screws EVERYONE. When you double your workforce, the predictable result is that wages plummet. Now, I for sure don't think any woman who can work and wants to should be blocked from doing so-- but maybe there could be another way of looking at it-- like a couple could choose who will be the primary wage-earner, and the other would be limited legally to 20-hour weeks or something. Actually, the wage problem is a really vicious circle, because the lower wages mean many women HAVE to work even if they'd like more time to take care of their children, just to pay the mortgage and the basic bills.
The other problem is age stratification. Since wages have dropped, and inflation has caused pensions to be worth less than expected in real buying power, older people are required to hang on to jobs longer. The results: no jobs, no opportunity.
I don't really think there's a problem agreeing about abortion, or much care about who should / shouldn't open doors. Only a pretty unenlightened person would think that women can't contribute AT LEAST as much as men in most professional fields (maybe more because of superior communication skills, tolerance for pain and illness etc. etc.). But the fact is that women's stronger place in society has also led to some real growing pains, with the ironic result that people are probably worse off than better off compared to a generation or two ago.
First of all, the richest, most powerful people in the US are clearly men. Just to balance out male / female average worth in the US, you'd have to screw 75% of men, i.e. those who are normal wage-earners. But I'd say those 75% are as much a victim of the right white men as anyone else is, including poor black women-- their opportunities are more and more limited as union jobs disappear, and they have less and less say in how the country is run.
Also, competition from women in the job market screws EVERYONE. When you double your workforce, the predictable result is that wages plummet. Now, I for sure don't think any woman who can work and wants to should be blocked from doing so-- but maybe there could be another way of looking at it-- like a couple could choose who will be the primary wage-earner, and the other would be limited legally to 20-hour weeks or something. Actually, the wage problem is a really vicious circle, because the lower wages mean many women HAVE to work even if they'd like more time to take care of their children, just to pay the mortgage and the basic bills.
The other problem is age stratification. Since wages have dropped, and inflation has caused pensions to be worth less than expected in real buying power, older people are required to hang on to jobs longer. The results: no jobs, no opportunity.
I don't really think there's a problem agreeing about abortion, or much care about who should / shouldn't open doors. Only a pretty unenlightened person would think that women can't contribute AT LEAST as much as men in most professional fields (maybe more because of superior communication skills, tolerance for pain and illness etc. etc.). But the fact is that women's stronger place in society has also led to some real growing pains, with the ironic result that people are probably worse off than better off compared to a generation or two ago.
