I agree. So have I. When I hitched around Europe when I was 18, it took me 2 hours to get a lift into Switzerland. Two young ladies rocked up, stuck their thumbs out and got a lift in about 30 seconds! Also, having to pay for entrance on "Ladies Night" in nightclubs, which was often a Friday. Women get in free. Is that discriminating based on gender?
There does tend to be a double standard on gender issues. Feminists want equality and non-discrimination based on gender. Tell that to the Ukrainian men who are not allowed to leave the country, only women and children. The men get conscripted and sent to their deaths in a bloody war. You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in non-discrimination or you don't. You can't pick and choose based how unpleasant the task is.
Jon, that is such a good point.
While there has been plenty of discrimination against women, as a male, it's quite obvious to me that BOTH genders have unique advantages, and BOTH genders have unique areas where they either are at a disadvantage or bear an extra burden - or whatever.
It is reasonable for the average person to keep both in mind - equally.
Interestingly, women have unloaded many of theirs. For example, most women would expect their husband NOT to expect them to be at home with an apron, iron and mop.
But if you hear the sound of glass breaking in your window in the middle of the night, or the doorbell rings at 2 AM, or whatever...........
Guess which gender will be expected to get up and confront....../ absorb......./make contact with, whatever / whoever it is? The man of course. And the same goes for all physical hurt, all pain and suffering, all danger and risk and confrontation and danger: The man is put out in front. With one exception of course, the non-trivial one of childbirth. (But that's optional).
One thing I will go as far as to say I am sick of articles that say things like: 100 people were hurt yesterday,
including many women and children.
As if the women's lives and pain are worth so much more than a man's.
Last time I checked, a bullet entering one's body hurts a man as much as it hurts a woman. Although men may be treated as disposables bodies to throw at a conflict, their pain is just as painful.
I'm fine with being the gender that steps up and absorbs the brunt of physical pain and suffering, because God created men with a bit of a tendency to want to step up and deal with that stuff, as is fairly obvious to everyone. That doesn't mean I appreciate it being overlooked, nor society to pretend men's pain isn't just as painful as it would be for a woman.
There should be the exact same amount of sympathy for every last random 18 yr old man forced to fight and get hurt in Ukraine the same as a story covering women getting hurt.
Discrimination against women has definitely happened and been bad, but they are not without their distinct advantages..
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