(May 3, 2014 at 2:29 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: I am thinking that this imbalance is due to the fact that women are and have always been viewed as "the weaker sex" so essentially men have only themselves to blame.This doesn't make sense, I'm not sure how you can blame all men for constructs set up hundreds or even thousands of years ago in some cases. It takes both men and women to continue these kinds of things by teaching them to each generation. Just as much of everyone's DNA is from men as women, to blame anyone for their ancestors crimes is ridiculous. Even more so when the only difference is a chromosome. Am I more to blame for sexist ideas formed in the past than my sisters for being born male?
I don't think that's what you really meant when you said it but I've seen similar things said before and its ridiculous. A lot of the time its in a similar circumstance when a man talks about how sexism is sometimes towards men. It ends up like a game of gender point scoring. You're gender did this to mine so you owe us this. Similar thing happens when talking about racism.
(May 3, 2014 at 2:29 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Needless to say you are correct in your observations. The next question is...... Just how do we, as a society, start addressing this?
I think teaching people how tiny the difference's between men and women are would be a good start. That and to stop group together each gender so much. Its like the whole of childhood is set up to teach boys and girls they are different.