This article/essay provides a great insight on the status of gender relations in this day in age. Read this with an open mind that is ready to be faced with the reality of what needs to be done in order to ensure the children of the future are raised in a way that doesn’t necessarily abide by history’s gender rolls, but instead accounts for how men and women have evolved. To me, the men that are being spoken about aren’t the no good dogs, but the real men that want the best life for their children.
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Tags: gender relations
Figured I’d beef up the comments section:
It’s a pretty well put together argument, but with a lot of extremes in between that need to be brought back to earth. First it sounds like he uses [his version] of feminism as the source for all female ideas. Maybe in his age group, race, or region this could be true, and since I don’t know, I can’t argue with that. But for general purposes and speaking as a woman, I didn’t learn about feminism until I got to ONE class in college, which pretty much went out of the door with my Spanish and Linear Algebra lessons.
I really can’t say I believe that students are taught that Anita Hill was right or wrong, but that was a case that exposed sexual harassment issues nationwide, for both men and women, and put laws in place today that we don’t even realize are protecting us.
If he has an issue with what boys are being taught in school, and if that issue stems from the fact that masculinity is being stripped from future boyhoods, why not ask where are the men in schools? Of course females need to be careful in an education environment – people fall into teaching things from their perspective and not the general perspective. But where are the male teachers, male gym coaches, male superintendents, and male mentors that can preserve the manhood in these boys?
He finishes the article by saying that women need to be scrutinized just like men are if they are to be considered life partners. I totally agree with this. Many men have gotten themselves in a situation with a woman because they NEVER scrutinized that woman in the first place. He mentions the heart break men face in court when their kids are taken away. But then he argues about scrutinizing women, so what happened to that man scrutinizing that woman and possibly not being in court in the first place? I think he needs to apply his solutions to both men and women to strengthen his argument. Unfortunately, a biased [my opinion] article like this one will have holes.