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Originally Posted by Erki  Woman 1 - 0 Man
The only way it can ever be. I hope no, though. I hope one day humans evolve so far that one half of the baby is born by the mother and the other half is born by the father. Then they go home and piece the baby together like an IKEA table. 
What is so patriarchal about the society? I should feel like in heaven. So why am I not? What is that so good that is in a man's life? That he represses women and at the same time is not as good as women? |
Erki, I don't mean to imply that I think men are less than women. That would be a reversal that only brought about the same pain and struggle on men that many women have been dealing with for centuries. There are biological differences built into us that mean women have the babies. There are also things men go through that women can never understand. It goes both ways. We can try to be curious and attentive, but neither will even be able to feel what the other goes through unless science takes an interesting move.
I don't have space here and this thread is already woefully of topic. But it's certainly hard to see what male privilege has afforded you and how women have been subjugated when you are a man. And certainly I don't believe you to act with the sense of entitlement that many men do. Again, this is not an across the board bash of men. But the patriarchal nature of society (in the US at least which is the only place I have personal experience with) is pervasive in such a way that it is hardly recognized if you are not on the "female end" of the equation. And also believe that I am not a victim, merely that I live every day in a society that values and caters to men and in which they hardly acknowledge (or perhaps even realize) that they have such privilege.