Over the past few weeks, I have read a few articles about female equality.
Now, I'm not denying that the fight for female equality has been well fought and we owe a tremendous debt to all the women who have battled to be taken seriously in male dominated environments. Looking back just 30 years we can see that there is considerably more freedom and choice for women, for which we are grateful. However, there seems to have been a switch of late were the rise of female equality is beginning to lead to the belief that female dominance is the way forward or that equality between the two sexes means that women can/should behave in the same way as men do and have everything the same. I find this somewhat disturbing and have read some articles with sections which quite frankly amount to female chauvinism. Speaking in broad generalisations the sexes have quite different strengths and weaknesses (though there will always be women that display some masculine strengths and vice versa) So, my point is really, when did we stop fighting for feminine strengths to be recognised as truly equal? When did we cease to remember that we need men? We balance out their weaknesses with our strengths and they do the same for us and surely that is what true equality is? I fully realise that we have lived in a male dominated society for a long time but it doesn't necessarily follow that a female dominated one will be any better. One writer cited the example of some monkeys that lived in a matriarchal society. Forgive me for stating the obvious but we are not monkeys, and, though I'm sure daily survival is a struggle in the jungle, there is nothing more complex than that to deal with. Do monkeys need to deal with the rise of knife crime in cities, global warming, world poverty or a crisis in the NHS? I think not.
I want to see women treated equally and am more than happy to assert that but I see no benefit in a society dominated by either gender. One of the greatest feminine strengths is life giving - obviously that can be taken literally but also in the sense that a woman can breathe life into a situation, revealing what was previously unseen, bringing freedom and new beginnings. I think it's time to stop worrying about what we should/could be doing and just be women with all the wonderful benefits and richness that brings!
Flickers of Hope
5 years ago
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