Suppression of Women...my response to Soc

Hello Soc,

Congratulation are certainly in order for those women of the Olympics and many others. applause

I know you are a philosophical and theoretical guy....so, I figured I would toss this theoretical question/scenario out there to you.

You are asserting that women should assert their power because they have been suppressed for many years. I don't contest that. Now, when you say that women have suppressed for many years, I am assuming you are talking about suppression caused from marriage. To use the words "many years" would indicate to me you are speaking of the years when marriage was prevalent in society.

So right now you are probably thinking to yourself...no....I am not only talking about the years of marriage...but I am also talking about their unfair employment in the working community, where women had to be dependent upon the man for their financial livelihood also.

I know you are not talking about women asserting their power in sports....because they have already been doing that for many years.

So, if you are talking about the suppression of women for years in the union of marriage, I would say that for the most part, that is the exact dynamics of marriage. Each person, in a typical marriage, had their roles. That is how and why marriage thrived for so many years and conflicts between the couples were held to a minimum. Everyone in the marriage, freely got involved in the marriage because they knew what their roles were to be. The man was the breadwinner, protector, and provider; where as, the woman was the important job of homemaker, nurturer, and organizer.

Now, in this institution of marriage, it would be very ignorant to think that there was not some outright abuse going on within it. I would bet my bottom dollar on the fact that there were some men that were abusive to their woman. It would be equally ignorant to believe that there were not some women abusive to their men. So in the case where men were abusing women, I totally agree with you...some were most likely being suppress and I solute them regaining their power.

However, if both the man and the woman entered into a union of marriage both knowing their roles that marriage proposes, how is it that women (in general) have been suppressed for years? If that is the case, then haven't men been also suppressed for years as well? Otherwise, were not both men and women both just fulfilling their obligations to what marriage entails and by doing so, sustaining a society that has grown a population that some would argue is overwhelming the planet?

So the ultimate question is this Soc....is it really suppression of women you should be encouraging to be overcome....or is it the institution of marriage you should be protesting against?