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***** rules. ***** has always ruled.
With artificial insemination easier and easier to get and afford, I think we'll just be keeping some men around as sex slaves. If and when we decide to let them out of their cages.
It's really easy to climb to the top, when you have people carving out special exemptions for you.
With artificial insemination easier and easier to get and afford, I think we'll just be keeping some men around as sex slaves. If and when we decide to let them out of their cages.
The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic
Money quote: With few exceptions, the greater the power of women, the greater the country’s economic success.
Any thoughts on where we're headed culturally?
What society has been doing is exploiting women, for the benefit of men.
Men subsidizing women is the old system that is beginning to shift. I personally think that the article overstates the idea of women dominating, but equality is advancing fairly rapidly. The recession is helping this and I view it as one of the few good things to come out of the recession. I highly doubt men are going to become consigned to being "house husbands" or get removed permanently from the workforce, that would be economic suicide to kick out half your country's labor force. No what we're seeing is a rise in equality not female dominance.
Unfortunately it's the old system that they don't want to give up(monetarily), combined with new privileges.
Just wait, we'll eventually have mandatory, paid leave for new mothers.
That comes at the expense of men as well.
I am glad that women are making progress, but the article in its entirely leaves out a few key pieces of information. One is that the U.S. is moving towards a service based economy, which means barriers to entry are mostly education and not physical ability. Men still occupy most of the positions in the physical labor force and the types of jobs that no one wants to do. The service industry created a culture of more cushy desk jobs and administrative work. Corporate offices are staffed largely by women, especially at the lower levels, while upper management are still mostly men.
I want to see their source for the claim that most managers are now women because I find that hard to believe.
Many things in society have been for the benefit of men. I'm very glad to see things starting to shift. Personally, I think a fair amount of the problems in this world stem from male egotism.
I guess white men would be the experts on this one, right?
Every so often, these silly feminist articles pop up in the news. There never will be an end to men. It's a feminist pipe dream, and quite childish at that. .
What society has been doing is exploiting women, for the benefit of men.
It is about time society put more value on motherhood, and recognised its importance. But, I think adequately recognising its importance should be more than just paid leave for new mothers.
We women are glad that you men continue to hold onto your fantasies. It makes our job so much easier when you don't see it coming.
Me too. Glad to see them starting to shift that is. I want better for my daughter than the sexist crap I have seen in work places and in society.
But, I suppose discrimination against us does not really make us less than men are. It just makes us end up with less of the worlds wealth. I hope my daughter will see it like that, and it wont bug her emotionally as it does me.
I dont think feminists want an end to men. I think, they want women to have the equal social and working rights as men do, and they are making good progress with it too, considering how bad things were in even the most developed countries 200 hundred years ago.
It's really easy to climb to the top, when you have people carving out special exemptions for you.
This is what has been happening for men all along. Why were they not protesting against the unfairness of it? And, it was not just a quota. The exemptions were 100% in their favour. And society is still largely set up to suit them, so they should still have more chance of succeeding than women do, despite the quotas which only make things slightly more fair. If a man it not making it, then there is another reason, besides women.
It's interesting to me that the notion of female superiority or dominance is so attractive to (apparently) so many women. Perhaps that is true of both genders... but I certainly don't see the same push from the male side of things to prove, subtlely or otherwise, that men are better than women in any particular fashion.
It's interesting to me that the notion of female superiority or dominance is so attractive to (apparently) so many women. Perhaps that is true of both genders... but I certainly don't see the same push from the male side of things to prove, subtlely or otherwise, that men are better than women in any particular fashion.
Hell, this article comes straight out and blasts men for being sub-par on communication, sitting still, focus, etc. I would imagine that if the same approach were used 50 years ago but with the genders swapped, there would be incessant cries of bigotry... and rightfully so.
Women don't do as well in business because it does not naturally suit a lot of them in the first place.
You can't change evolution with good intentions.
Men and women aren't equal, never have been since the beginning.
Why should we now be expected to be equal when we aren't?