I don't deny that their are issues of gender inequality - on both sides. But what bothers you the most and why? Can something be done to solve that problem? Should it be solved?
2006-12-11 05:03:04 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Let me tell you a story. The other day I was driving on the highway when I saw a car pulled over... I decided to try and help them (I had a cell phone they could use if they needed it) Turns out it was a bunch of boys my age (I'm 19). I get out of the car and ask them if they need help. They looked at me like I was crazy... Like a girl could ever help them. I looked at their car and all it was was a flat tire. I asked them if they needed help with it. One of them asked me if I could "Handle it". I smiled and asked them for the jack, and told them "Time me" and got to work... Took me 3 mins. I got in my car and drove away, leaving them bewildered. I like being a girl so I can prove people wrong. It's fun.
Why do guys think girls can't do the "Dirty work" I love working on cars and getting dirty. Guys (Not all, mind you) seem to think women belong in the kitchen. Times have changed. I'm not in the kitchen, I'm in the garage.
2006-12-11 05:47:48 · answer #1 · answered by Ophelia 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
The issue of gender inequality that bothers me the most is that people think that there are issues of gender inequality. I think that if women and men would just embrace each of their unique, God-given abilities and put them to the best use to make our families and societies run smoothly, then I think no one would have an excuse to feel "oppressed".
I think it's sad that men have been reduced to a punch line in today's society. They seem to have been placed in the role of the "bumbling idiot" one too many times in the media, and it's starting to take hold. Hey, I'm all for the downtrodden picking themselves up, but let's not go too far in the other direction, ok?
I also think that all of the talk of men being dispensible, especially with regard to child-rearing is a mistake on two fronts; first, they're NOT dispensible, but play a very important role in the microcosm that is the nuclear family. Boys AND girls need them as role models; second, classifying them as dispensible LETS THEM OFF THE HOOK, and will only encourage more and more men to abandon their wives and children and to refuse to support them not only emotionally but financially.
I think women may just be cutting off their nose to spite their face, and it's only hurting children.
God bless.
2006-12-11 07:33:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The perception that one gender must be "better" than the other, instead of the recognition that both genders are just "different". And also the fact that most men can't comprehend the fact that just because something is positive or empowering for women, it doesn't mean that it is degrading toward men.
2006-12-11 05:42:05 · answer #3 · answered by badkitty1969 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I feel really sorry for women who work a full-time job, then have to go home and make dinner and clean the house while their partners watch TV, because the partners think it is the woman's duty to do those things.
2006-12-11 13:31:41 · answer #4 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Men can F**k around like Santa giving out gifts on Christmas & he's THE MAN, but a woman doing the exact same thing is a HO HO HO..... Merry Christmas! it has been this way for the longest while & I truely think its unfair to women & their reputation. The media & society has alot to do with this & I wonder if it will ever change.
2006-12-11 07:03:40 · answer #5 · answered by Lue 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The difference in pay. Sorry ladies, you will have to take that up with your boss. Yes it should be solved
2006-12-11 09:07:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pissed mainly about the injustices in court against men. Our lack of reproductive rights, the double-standards, rapant self-serving a-la-carte feminism of today. Women who complain about the often debunked stat that women always quote that says women get only 78% of what men get.
2006-12-11 06:54:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
What bothers me the most is when women have attitudes like Ophelia's. She wasn't out to help anybody...she was out to prove something. Can women change tires? Sure. Are they cut out for it better than the average man? Nope...physically weaker and a lower mechanical aptitude as proven by numerous scientific studies. The reason it bothers me is because a woman out trying to prove something to her husband and turn a wrench while breast-feeding a baby does not paint a pretty marital picture. It's a divorce before marriage even begins. That bothers me...we have enough problems in this world already without a bunch of women ditching the things that make them most valuable because they're out to prove something that they'll never successfully prove. What they have successfully proved is feminisms ability to convince women that they'll never amount to anything truly valuable unless they can do everything a man can do. Apples trying to be oranges. Again.
2006-12-11 06:04:14 · answer #8 · answered by fishman 3 · 6⤊ 6⤋
I feel sad that men are reduced to sperm donors and no longer have a place in the family of a lot of homes.
children need fathers as much as they need mothers
I think the courts are not fair to men in situations of divorce and child custody
2006-12-11 05:05:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
How can the world expect you to "be a man" when they take the tools away from you that you need to do the job. On top of that, then they call you "worthless" and "useless". I'm glad I found a woman who respects me for my efforts and loves me despite my shortcomings. Trust me, they are few and far between, and I'm hanging on to this treasure. Feminists beware, I have what you lack in life, an equal relationship with my wife.
2006-12-11 05:19:04 · answer #10 · answered by Jimbo 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋