AmateisGal
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Equality between genders doesn't mean *literal* physical equality in all things at all times, and the idea that it does or should is ridiculous.
Yep.
Equality between genders doesn't mean *literal* physical equality in all things at all times, and the idea that it does or should is ridiculous.
For some people the obvious is not to be acknowledged - in general there is a difference between men and women in both physical abilities and the way we are wired to think.
All the wishing in the world can't change things, if you are blind chances are you're not going to be that airline pilot no matter how hard you try following your dreams.
The thing that gets me is the inherent contradiction in militant feminism; they don't seem to realize that all their rabid attempts to become exactly the same as men in everything denies that the uniqueness of women has value. Basically without realizing it, they're devaluing what it is to be a woman by demanding that women become men.
Men and women are inexorably different in many ways. In my opinion, this difference is a beautiful thing and was planned specifically by our Creator to make us unique from one another and yet complementary. Women and men have different strengths and abilities, and neither one is better or worse than the other, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. Chivalry, at its core, is meant to celebrate and honor this difference by showing reverence for the otherness of women.
The thing that gets me is the inherent contradiction in militant feminism; they don't seem to realize that all their rabid attempts to become exactly the same as men in everything denies that the uniqueness of women has value. Basically without realizing it, they're devaluing what it is to be a woman by demanding that women become men.
Men and women are inexorably different in many ways. In my opinion, this difference is a beautiful thing and was planned specifically by our Creator to make us unique from one another and yet complementary. Women and men have different strengths and abilities, and neither one is better or worse than the other, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. Chivalry, at its core, is meant to celebrate and honor this difference by showing reverence for the otherness of women.
The thing that gets me is the inherent contradiction in militant feminism; they don't seem to realize that all their rabid attempts to become exactly the same as men in everything denies that the uniqueness of women has value. Basically without realizing it, they're devaluing what it is to be a woman by demanding that women become men.
Men and women are inexorably different in many ways. In my opinion, this difference is a beautiful thing and was planned specifically by our Creator to make us unique from one another and yet complementary. Women and men have different strengths and abilities, and neither one is better or worse than the other, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. Chivalry, at its core, is meant to celebrate and honor this difference by showing reverence for the otherness of women.
Chivalry, at its core, is meant to celebrate and honor this difference by showing reverence for the otherness of women.
If it were, it'd be little better than the sort of "separate but equal" equivocation that has so often been used to support discrimination of many kinds, historically speaking.
The thing that gets me is the inherent contradiction in militant feminism; they don't seem to realize that all their rabid attempts to become exactly the same as men in everything denies that the uniqueness of women has value. Basically without realizing it, they're devaluing what it is to be a woman by demanding that women become men.
Men and women are inexorably different in many ways. In my opinion, this difference is a beautiful thing and was planned specifically by our Creator to make us unique from one another and yet complementary. Women and men have different strengths and abilities, and neither one is better or worse than the other, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. Chivalry, at its core, is meant to celebrate and honor this difference by showing reverence for the otherness of women.
It should be less about "chivalry" and more about "common courtesy". I don't want to be treated nice just because of my gender, but because it's just...the nice thing to do for ANYONE.
I think this pinpoints why I generally don't like the word chivalry. I love it when people are kind and considerate and helpful to others, but I don't generally like to be treated as an Other.
I guess I'm not a militant feminist, because I don't want women to be the same as men. But I do think women should be given the same opportunities as men and not have wage disparities for working the same jobs. That's part of where feminism started, and I don't think that's a horrible thing at all.
I think of the "otherness" of men, myself, but the point is well taken.
I think the idea that all except the most basic physical differences between men and women are socially constructed has been pretty much discredited -- there are substantial differences in brain chemistry between males and females that strongly affect behavior. The thing that really convinced me of this was hearing an lengthy radio interview with a female-to-male transsexual -- who described in detail how pretty much his entire worldview changed when his brain became acclimatized to testosterone. He became, literally, an entirely different person. That's not just a matter of social construction: the hormones changed the way his thought processes worked.
What it all boils down to is that if you use changes in society as an excuse for acting like a jackass, you really *are* a jackass. "Chivalry" is just a fancy-pants word for common courtesy.