True equality between the sexes? - Equality Redux

tortus · 2009-12-06T11:17:48+00:00

No-one would look twice at a female engineer today, but a male teacher would be a suspected-pedophile at best

That is why I never went into teaching and why many males do not. here almost all scholol are 75-80% female, more in elementary. There have been far too many false accusations. A kid or parent does not like a teacher make some lie up about him being a pervert or he 'looks at me the wrong way' bs..and he is gone.

When I was at University the fear of being called a 'molester' 'child abuser' and having their lives wrecked was why men who wanted to be teachers did not enter the profession.

I say here within a generation school teachers will dam near be 100% female.

it is sad really with so many single mother house holds now, boys and girls have no male role models. No wonder so many males are 'feminized' they know nothing about their gender....

Kuonji · 2009-12-06T01:00:31+00:00

The issue was that academic and radical activist feminism had to, at some point, come to terms with the concerns of women as a whole — and women as a whole had largely different interests from the academic and radical activist feminists. While the radicals and the academics sometimes talked about getting rid of female privilege (saying things such as “a pedestal is a small space”), this was never taken seriously by women as a whole, because the wider world of women had no interest whatsoever in shedding female privileges. Why would they? As Chinweizu points out in “Anatomy of Female Power”, these privileges and ideas were the ones that helped women control men behind the mask of patriarchal power and privilege. So, in fact, women as a group took a “cafeteria” approach to what feminism offered — taking what they wanted, and resisting what they did not want.

(Emphasis mine)

tortus · 2009-12-06T01:47:34+00:00

So how do we fix this, then? Any ideas?

2009-12-07T00:53:10+00:00

It was well written, although the claim that women have picked and chosen the bits they like out of feminism needs to be fleshed out.

To some degree it may be true that the boldest claims of victimhood got the most attention, but it's something that's got to work both ways.

Also this does little to change the fact that modern feminism is the engine behind all the fatuous, transparently anti male propaganda about the wage gap, rape, etc..

Veldang · 2009-12-06T10:05:05+00:00

This is true, but ignores the fact that inequality still exists for women as well. There are more women in the fields that fits with the typical view of women as caring and emphatic. There are less women in the boardrooms, in technical fields and while there are more women in nursing and teaching, the leaders tend to be men. The female dominated fields are also characterized by less pay and more part time work.

Personally I think we will not have true equality before both genders take an equal part of the responsibility for childcare and for creating an income to support the family.

Title	True equality between the sexes? - Equality Redux
Author	Kuonji
Upvotes	10
Comments	18
Date	December 6, 2009 12:58 AM UTC (16 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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No-one would look twice at a female engineer today, but a male teacher would be a suspected-pedophile at best