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In our ambiguous times, when the filibuster for women’s rights and opportunities remains a hot and hot topic, it is very easy to get confused. This is why so often one hears doubts: is it worth fighting for equal rights if men stop holding doors for you officially and you have to carry packages by yourselves, is this ambiguous feminism worth such changes?
This is why it is believed that the attempt to equalize gender is akin to the rejection of centuries-old traditions and even banal good manners. But this is not the case, because there is a huge chasm between equality and equity, and it is just worth learning to distinguish one from the other. First of all, we should always remember that feminism as an activist movement was not born so that women would learn to do men’s jobs and refuse to pay attention to their partners. Although the latter can be judged from a different angle, and we will return to the subject of attention – bouquets, chocolates, diamonds, and more.
Initially, ladies and girls were fighting for the chance to be in charge of their own lives, and this, in turn, meant that they no longer had to sit at home and have no opportunity to get an education or work. Girls now have a choice that they simply did not have before. And if you think about it, it turns out that this is a struggle for rights, that is, an attempt to level the playing field.
A controversial issue.
In fact, equality between men and women is the ability to make any decisions regarding their own lives independently. And if previously a woman was tacitly perceived as an investment in a man’s life and could only accurately express her opinion on the upcoming marriage, now modern young ladies and girls have the ability to demand equal pay for identical work, to hold positions and positions that were previously considered exclusively male, and – which, incidentally, is constantly forgotten by opponents of feminism – have the right to divorce and the subsequent quality of personal life in the future. In America, for example, women are asking for a reconsideration of the approach to child-rearing after divorce, that is, once again, a de facto equalization of rights, although this time of parental rights. Traditional parenting, where children live in the territory of the mother and meet the father on holidays, is now perceived as a stick in the wheel of a parent’s life.
Just think how hard it is for women to break out on dates, build a career, and hope for financial stability when the entire burden of childcare after a divorce rests on mom’s shoulders. And dads get away with having fun on the weekends and a life free of children, which they can use as they please. Achieving equality on this issue will help make a woman’s life better and more fulfilling!
Gentlemen, Ladies and Equality
At the same time, the very arguments that are being made about the gentlemen’s set in relation to women, just think about it for a second, are no longer about the rights and opportunities that everyone needs to live a healthy life. We are already talking here about the difference between genders, our natural difference, our need for such a difference, because men and women understandably have different ways of looking at and navigating this world. Accordingly, people who say that along with feminism all gender bonuses, such as courtship and special treatment, are simply confusing two radically different concepts – equality and equal rights.
Man and woman can never be equal After all, their union was originally justified in ancient times by better skills for survival. So the traditional notions that with women comes comfort and warmth, and men are responsible for global accomplishments and achievements, are justified primarily by nature, and if they will change, then not cardinally. This means that we should not worry that the difference between the sexes will be erased as feminism intensifies. But there is another important argument in defense of this social movement: it is the right of women to accept men’s attention or, on the contrary, to refuse it because of their weakness. And it is also a right we have, thanks to feminism.
