Gender Equality? ( Archived) (368)

Exactly! Hi Tony

All change is difficult, especially if the older values are ingrained. The next couple of generations are our only hope, but fly in the ointment is that the powers that be, who want things as they are, are also breeding a new generation and indoctrinating them in the same colleges they themselves went to, and turning out carbon copies. I think it is going to take a while for real change.

Ask any member of any nuclear family who is the boss, and they will all point to the man as the head of the household/boss.

Look at any official or government form you will see the same.

Indoctrination to make people think they are different.

I think some people are confusing equality with sameness.

Men and women are not the same, but as members of society
should be equal. Look back just a few decades at the
inequality that was in fact taken for granted.

Society is a work in progress.

What I am trying to say here is that it tends to give men the notion that they have power, and authority, that they don't actually have in reality.

This is perpetuated by rules for a society of unequals.

But a man cannot set down rules in his house, or within what he is told is HIS family unit, to harm anyone in it, regardless of whether they are men, women or children. There is not authority behind the NOTION of inequality.

It does seem dark to me...the divorse rate is greater all the time...the scales have been tipping for years...is it really tipping in the right direction? Maybe just maybe some of the "old norms" or ideologies were'nt so bad as what has been quoted "forward thinking"

Yeah, would have to agree it does seem dark. We can only hope that once the transformation that is taking place is complete, that our children will have learned from our mistakes, and will again give meaning and value to Marriage, Family, Community/Tribe. lt seems to me that there are good and bad aspects to the developments that have been happening since the sixty's. While the changes that we have been going through are quite obviously necessary, there is a dark aspect to the direction that we are going that could lead to Narcissism and selfishness, which in turn will lead to a total social breakdown. At the end of the day, our children are the next generation that maintains the life of a Society, and if that society does not or cannot hold a safe and secure place in which can grow, where are we then?

It has been this way and quite likely always will. If equality were in any way possible, these threads (not to mention the rest of the world) would far less contiguous. There are men wanting equality with men, women wanting it with other women and as you state genders wanting equality.

Equal treatment of people in general is the underlying, missing link.