Equality and Feminism
I am a feminist - and thats the truth.
Feminism is that percept that says women are equal to men. I happen to concur; how can this statement possibly be wrong.
I have been trying to understand the underlying problem with people accepting equality as a percept -and I think the problem lies in the fact that as humans we necessarily tend to gravitate towards a status quo. We do that in two distinct styles... We want to form groups and we need to 'feel' superior...
Think about it... We have never been too goo with the concept of Authority; we have accepted it as something we had no choice about... and the first opportunity, we took pleasure in breaking the shackles of authority. Teachers, Parents, elder siblings every/any relationship that started with the concept of authority was just begging to be broken. As humans we cannot stand that we are not supreme.
I think this might have something to do with the notion of the alpha male - so this problem might be more prominent in the male species; but i have also noticed a similar thread in females... so I generalize.
The other thing we do is to form herds or groups of (who we think to be) like-minded people. we somehow seek to know we are not the ONLY people with our kinds of thoughts/behaviors or whatever... while earlier generations found little realization to this angst; with Web 2.0 Communication and social networking, we are now finding soul-mates across geographies.
So... with these two things... Now.. let us get back to the original question.... why do people find it difficult to accept the concept of feminism... because it goes against these two needs... one.. because feminism asks a man to think outside the concept of the traditional roles of man/woman (where the man is by default the superior of the relationship) to actually taking each relationship at face value and fighting for the superiority (by individual profile) in each and every relationship he has... (the need to be superior does not go away... it just has to be taken on a case by case basis... I do not believe that any relationship can be perfectly equal)
Two... feminism asks that the man associate with a group (feminists) who are by sheer numbers a smaller (and weaker) group.. this is akin to the cliche' of a Hollywood portrayal of US high school popular jock being asked to associate with a group of nerds or geeks (Ooohh! the horror) it is not that the 'hero' is against the particular principle of the theory but is against openly associating with it and being considered part of a weaker group (and hence loosing the 'manliness' factor)
If we are to see acceptance of feminism; we ought to think of how we tackle these two issues...
any ideas?
Feminism is that percept that says women are equal to men. I happen to concur; how can this statement possibly be wrong.
I have been trying to understand the underlying problem with people accepting equality as a percept -and I think the problem lies in the fact that as humans we necessarily tend to gravitate towards a status quo. We do that in two distinct styles... We want to form groups and we need to 'feel' superior...
Think about it... We have never been too goo with the concept of Authority; we have accepted it as something we had no choice about... and the first opportunity, we took pleasure in breaking the shackles of authority. Teachers, Parents, elder siblings every/any relationship that started with the concept of authority was just begging to be broken. As humans we cannot stand that we are not supreme.
I think this might have something to do with the notion of the alpha male - so this problem might be more prominent in the male species; but i have also noticed a similar thread in females... so I generalize.
The other thing we do is to form herds or groups of (who we think to be) like-minded people. we somehow seek to know we are not the ONLY people with our kinds of thoughts/behaviors or whatever... while earlier generations found little realization to this angst; with Web 2.0 Communication and social networking, we are now finding soul-mates across geographies.
So... with these two things... Now.. let us get back to the original question.... why do people find it difficult to accept the concept of feminism... because it goes against these two needs... one.. because feminism asks a man to think outside the concept of the traditional roles of man/woman (where the man is by default the superior of the relationship) to actually taking each relationship at face value and fighting for the superiority (by individual profile) in each and every relationship he has... (the need to be superior does not go away... it just has to be taken on a case by case basis... I do not believe that any relationship can be perfectly equal)
Two... feminism asks that the man associate with a group (feminists) who are by sheer numbers a smaller (and weaker) group.. this is akin to the cliche' of a Hollywood portrayal of US high school popular jock being asked to associate with a group of nerds or geeks (Ooohh! the horror) it is not that the 'hero' is against the particular principle of the theory but is against openly associating with it and being considered part of a weaker group (and hence loosing the 'manliness' factor)
If we are to see acceptance of feminism; we ought to think of how we tackle these two issues...
any ideas?
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1 comment:
More than a comment it is a question?
Yes, I do believe in the same but it is easy to accept it as a concept than accepting it as a reality. I myself being a women do not allow other women or so to say even my self to be treated as an equal which is not intentional but it is because of how we are brought up by parents, society, environment we live in etc. But my question here is how do we go about it? Forget about telling others - how do we make ourselves believe in it and bring it to action?
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