Do you believe equality betwen women and men is just a discrimination???
@4skaisthelimit (412)
Niger
April 29, 2007 3:04pm CST
Women are different to men it's 100% true physically and emotionally,but to say that women are inferior to men is just a discrimination against them in all Human cultures even in my own culture.
On which evidences do men base to think that they just are superior to women???
I think it's just a discrimination.
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@filmbuff (2909)
• United States
4 May 07
I'm so affraid to post in this discussion. I agree with you, but I'll still be a called a sexist for doing so.
I'm a man, and in general men are inferior to women. We are stronger physcially and usually better at math but that's about as far as it goes.
Women communicate better, are more compassionate, and nurturing. Women also (hate to say it) are more competitve (with each other) and also more manipulative and vindictive. They do in general run the show (for the most part) through men. As the saying goes, "behind every man is a good woman." I think of course the greatest thing a woman can do that a man can't is have a baby. You get to create life and let it grow inside you. For me to do that I would need to catch a tapeworm. Women you rock.
Go ahead and flame me, ignore the compliments, but it's the truth as I see it.
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
29 Apr 07
Men in the past have often been taught that physical strength means superiority. So, since men are typically stronger than women physically, they believe themselves to be superior. Of course, not all men are physically stronger than all women: I know men I am stronger than, and the strongest person I have personally known was a female security guard who wiped the floor with men and could lift insane amounts of weight.
I think too that once an idea like this gets into the social structure, it's hard to get it out. Once you have a majority of people who believe that men are better than women, they teach their children that, who teach their children that... and it becomes really hard to stop.
@4skaisthelimit (412)
• Niger
29 Apr 07
but isn't that women have more contact with children,shouldn't they start teaching them that both men and women are equal???
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
29 Apr 07
True, women do tend to have more contact with children. But women whose husbands treat them as if they aren't equal can have a very hard time teaching their kids that women and men are equal.
Not only that, but a lot of the ways in which kids learn this type of discrimination aren't vocal, but more in the attitudes and treatment of people. If a brother and sister are treated differently, they will believe they are unequal no matter what they are told. Likewise if boys are encouraged to do certain activities that girls aren't, or if more emphasis is put on boys being "tough" or "manly" and girls being "ladylike". Essentially in order to teach kids that both genders are equal, we have to learn to actually treat them that way, not just give lip service to the idea.
Say for example your parents tell you that men and women are equal, but your father makes all the important family decisions, or controls all the discipline for the children, or tells the mother when to have dinner ready and what to make or whatever. What will you think if you hear your father bossing your mother around, even if your mother says that she is his equal?
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
29 Apr 07
I went away, and then thought of something I had forgotten to say! Not only is it an issue of children learning by observation as well as through teaching, but also an issue of women who honestly believe they are not equal.
As a child, I had women from my family tell me that I must do what men said. Men in my family even abused me, and I was told that there was nothing the women could do because the men were in charge. And this is in the United States, which is supposed to be huge on equality and all that! I know women who honestly believe they are not equal to men, and who teach their children that! Most of the time, this belief stems from teachings of their religions, which makes it extra hard to change.
@5000ml (1923)
• Belgium
16 Jun 07
I believe in equal rights for both men and women and do not for a moment believe that women are inferior to men, but I do believe that we should celebrate the differences between the two genders. Neither is better, neither is superior, there are just a few differences.
Having said that, most women are stronger both in body and mind than most men. With stronger I don't necessarily mean physical strength, but I still find it amazing how women can carry life for 9 months, go through childbirth and then resume their daily life amazingly quick afterwards.
@joice86 (1078)
• Philippines
30 Apr 07
Yep, its really just a discrimination... That men are more superior than women. Yes women are different from men but i think that every man's success, there's always a woman behind it. That men and women should complement each other and that men should not think that they are greater than women.
@JessyBlue (536)
• United States
5 May 07
Yeah men and women are so completely different..but I agree with you both should be treated equal. Hopefully one day the old style of women in the kitchen and men bring home the bacon will just be an old saying rather than the way things are for some.
@funfreak2k2 (1734)
• India
29 Apr 07
i think i agree with you. men and women are almost equal. men are only superior by the width of a hair. but the slightest difference should not be taken to the height of discrimination.
