Edit: definition of intrinsic means to be endowed with or born with.

This is my attempt to bring to light the reason why women aren't as respected as they were in the past.

Throughout human history, women held an intrinsic value. That value was predicated on the fact that women bear the burden of child birth. This is self evident. When the titanic was sinking and the ship crew yelled to the passenger "Children and women 1st!". You didn't wonder, "Hey, that's not fair." It was so self evident why, that you just nodded your head and said, "yes, that's how it should be."

Now that intrinsic value comes with a heavy burden. The responsibility to bear children. As a collective, we've said "we will treat you as though you are valuable because you have the burden of child bearing." And this made perfect sense. Until recently.

Bring in the era of the birth control pill. What does it mean to prevent yourself from getting pregnant? Well, on a psychological level, if you can't get pregnant, you're not much different than a man.

You can see this play out over the last 60 years.

Now the current tension between men and women is as followed. Women expect their intrinsic value to be respected, but have postpone or completely abandon the responsibility that predicated that value.

Birth rates in the west have fallen dramatically. Society has been on a constant psychological campaign to demonize motherhood and demonize children.

If you're a women, and have experienced not being respected for simply being human. Welcome to what it means to be a man. Men who provide no value to society aren't respected. It's been like that since the dawn of time.

I hope you found this psychological analysis interesting.