For the guys...?

Question

What are your thoughts on women's rights? Be honest and please indicate your age.

Answer 1

I feel so bad about the suffrage of women. It makes me so mad when I see a woman deep down in the cold pits of suffrage, I want to do something, anything, to help and guide her away from her suffrage. I am all for women's rights, and will celebrate the day when they experience suffrage no more.

Answer 2

I am a man age 60. I think women should have equal rights for voting, working, and basically anything else available to them on this planet. If a woman, however, can not perform as well as a man (because of physical strength or mechanical knowhow) in a job, then they should not bellyache about not being put in that job. Women make better workers placed in some jobs. They can be good managers, and they can be good at other skills thought earlier to be a "man's" job. They also can be poor at their performance like any man, and should not be promoted just because of their gender to make a quota percentage (the same applies to other minorities). The Women's Rights Movement was needed I agree, but just like a lot of other things that were needed (like labor unions), the movement has rolled a little too far past the proper stopping point. Employers now generally pay women (comparing the same job skills) equal to men. Where there may still be deficiencies for women lies in managerial positions (where the woman has the training and aptitude for the position, but a guy is chosen instead). I have not seen this in my experience, but I have acquaintances that say this still goes on. Within the company that I work for, they have many women in leadership positions, women in technical jobs, and women at all levels in the manufacturing area. My feeling is that we have a lot more equality for the females than we do the males at this point. So far as the outside world is concerned, we have women doing everything they want to do (if they go for it). I know that married females still on the average takes the bulk of the child rearing role, but even that is changing. I have no regrets that women have received more rights. We have come a long way from our earlier years and are eons ahead of third world countries where women are still being ignored, abused and exploited.

Answer 3

Age 49: I thought we were past all that and into "human rights". It is difficult to conceive a division of "men's rights" and "women's rights". Each have the same legal rights in spite of social forces seeking to undercut the actual choices. How many male daycare workers are there? How many female auto mechanics?

Answer 4

I don't have any problem with men and women having the same legal, cultural, and societal rights.

What I do have a problem with is that many people insist on "rights" that aren't rights at all, but PRIVILEGES.

In addition, we have to remember that every right entails responsibility. There are many people who want to have the rights and foist the responsibilities off on others. It is this that I have real problems with. The sense of being entitled to complete license with no consequences.

Edit: I'm in my mid-30's.

Answer 5

Born 1953 Would like to see you ask this author about this story-movie. She is still alive. Harper Lee's characters Mayella and Scout can SWAP FAMILIES for 40 days in a 2007 version of To Kill A Mockingbird? This a great movie idea!?

Genders are not economically equal, but they should be equal in joy and love and influence - but then you get down to how they were raised...and families today often choose painful lives out of stupidity rather than ignorance.

I hope Hillary Clinton does win for President. Or maybe Pelosi?

Answer 6

I'm 44, and believe women should have the same rights as men. I attend an Episcopal church wiht a woman priest, I've worked for women, and had women as colleagues. I've never hit on one in the workplace (Although I admit to being tempted once in my single days). My wife is my best friend and I rely on her judgment, and I would deck anybody who voiced the opinion that she should be a stay-at-home mom.

Answer 7

I don't have a problem with women's rights if men have similar rights and the rights do not need to be balanced by a responsibility for men, which does not apply to the women. I think women acheived equal rights long ago and any further attempt to obtain rights is an attempt to obtain privilege.

Biased women's rights are, for example:

* Sexual harassment (right for women responsibility for men).
* Affirmative action (right for women responsibility for employers, which men do not have an equal right to).
* Domestic violence laws (Skewed very badly in favour of women).
* Divorce laws (Skewed very badly in favour of women).
* Reproductive rights (abortion etc. a right for women, child support a responsibility for men).
* Education system (Skewed very badly in favour of women).
* Media (Men are represented badly far more often than women are, including biased interpretations of the same behaviours, despite feminist complaints)

etc. etc.

I don't necessarily have a problem with women working and getting equal OPPORTUNITIES (ie. not outcomes), as long as they are not leeching benefits from the government in order to do so.

I definitely do not think feminists are about equality in todays day and age, because women have MORE rights than men do. I think a men's movement is required for actual equality.

I'm in my late 20s.

Answer 8

I'm 60, for what *that's* worth.
Women have more rights than men. For a start:
Once conception occurs, women can choose to abort, adopt out, abandon or keep the baby (along with the promise of child support), the father can only abide by her decision;
Unmarried women are given automatic custody or may refuse it; the father must either be approved by the mother or sue and most likely will not win even shared custody.
Divorcing women are almost guaranteed custody along with an order for "child support" that may be used as general income and spent on anything;
Women's sentences for crimes are less severe than the same crime for a man;
Expenses for women-specific medical research far exceed those for men-specific research in spite of the fact that men die earlier;
Women are far more likely to be granted a restraining order against their spouse or "significant other", without evidence, than a man;
It is considered sexist (and illegal) to have male-only groups or clubs but there are many female-only clubs groups and even colleges. There are no male-only colleges but several women-only institutions.
Nearly every state, including the US government has sections devoted entirely to women like women owned businesses getting priority in state "bidding", other women's business administration, women lawyers groups, women doctors groups... even the UN has a women-centric facility: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).
Women have multiple forms of birth control, including abortion (which is most often used as birth control) compared to men's one, not very reliable form.

If women were equal to men, there would be no women's colleges. Women would be denied abortion. Affirmative action would not apply to women. Sexual harassment would be unheard of. The instance of custody going to fathers in only 7% of the time would be increased to at least 30%. Men would not be victims of paternity fraud.
EDIT
Women are not required to register for the draft because they will never be ordered into combat.
Women marry up, meaning they marry someone more wealthy or in a higher stratum of society.
Affirmative action, which was originally targeted toward blacks was hijacked by women. (Of the Washington state workers in 1998 that benefitted from AA, 60% were white women).
Violence against women (both I and II) are overtly sexist. Males are assaulted far more often than females even with sexual assault included. Boys aged 14-17 are more likely to be victims of homicide, accident and assault than women of any age group. Every large community has at least one place for battered women but there are extremely few for men, even though men are battered in about equal numbers.
Female genital mutilation is considered evil and receives large attention while male genital mutilation is rampant even in the US and considered beneficial.
ETC.

Answer 9

I'm 40 years old and a woman should have the same rights that men have.

Answer 10

Anything less than full and equal rights for women is backward, destructive, ignorant and doomed.

48.