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you know what i find interesting? sexists. i know that there are men out there that don't feel women are as good (even if subconciously) as them. but what i find even more interesting is the fact that just recently, i discovered (or realized or had an epiphany(sp?)) that i too am sexist. sexist against men? no, i'm sexest against my own gender!
ok, for my background on this, i do come from a traditional family with old world morals and the like. my parents have been married for thirty years and have never had a divorce and my sister and i were born in wedlock. i don't believe in divorce (exept in extreme cases like abuse or abandonment) and i also plan on staying a virgin until i marry. (no, i do not go around with my southern babtist covenent with pitchforks saying "the power of christ comples you!" wink in fact, i find it difficult to go to church even once every two months.
but anywho. i suppose the root of my sexism of my own sex is the fact that i REALLY don't like people that are never satisfied. that always want more and nothin is ever good enough and you can never say the right thing to make it OK. enter, the feminists. I am extremely greatful for everything they have done for us in the past. they've made us able to get equal jobs, education, pay, and we've been able to vote. but there came a time when the feminists became sexist against men and kept wanting more.
not only did they want to be treated fairly, they wanted to be treated BETTER. they wanted to be payed BETTER. they wanted more freedoms and rights because they are also mothers. i know that some woman was put to execution a year or so ago (my memory isn't so great on this, but i know it happened) and the feminists argued that the state putting a woman to death was sexist! wouldn't that be giving women equal rights? saying, because you're a woman, you'll get treated the same as a man and have to deal with the same consequences? that just blew me away.
but i suppose back to the sexism. when i was watching an episode of scrubs a while back, they were doing an episode on discrimination. a female doctor asked a male surgeon if he thought a male doctor was better that a female doctor. quite honestly, the bell in my head went off "male, duh". of course, i knwo this is a stereotype, but it still popped into my head. but what bothered me th most was that the female thought that she was being discriminated against. if you admit that sexists are what are holding you back, then you yourself are being sexist to the opposite gender!
ok, take for example, Nancy Palosi (sp?) she was elected and the day or so after she held a party celebrating her victory- because she was a woman. acknowledging that being a woman held you back is saying you're sexist too in this day and age. also, i HATE (well, not hate, but) woman that go up to a podium and argue that they should be _____ because they are a woman. this further separates the genders because we are trying to make our own superior! that said, i also dislike the people that vote for other women simply because they're a woman. yeah, i'm sure that help unite the genders.
but, in a full circle type delio, i nkow the senator clinton is running for president (and i also know she hasn't said that she should be elected because she's a woman) but most of her supporters say that she has been treated unfairly because of her gender. but, quite honestly, when explaining why i didn't want her being president (aside from the fact that i'm in no respect a democrat) i honsetly said tha ti dont think i want a women as a president ina time of war. i still feel this is true, but i found soemthing out: because i am a woman, i hold our gender to a higher standard.
i expect women to act like they are equal to men, not like they aren't equal enough. i expect women to be in control of their emotions, and not be drama queens. i expect women to not want men to be able to read their minds, and i want women to start acting like WOMEN! and not men in dress suits. i like a MAN. i don't want a sissy, metro-sexual, in touch with his femine side, wimp. i want a strong man who will let me be who i am without walking all over him because men who bend over backward for women obviouisly have no backbone. (he he, get it? no back bone, bend over backwards?)
wow this was long entry. but i hope a lot of women read it. i know that many people still consider me a child because of my age, but i am mentally mature. i don't get angry when people look at me as a child, because they are right. i'm not going to deny that i am a child with limited knowledge of the world (but much MUCH mroe than a normal "child" has). i don't feel like a child, but that's how i am seen sometimes. i am getting to the age, though, where people see me for the mature person i can be rather than my hieght and sarcastic comments. i know this paragraph is off topic, so i thin i'll start a different journal entry. but, women, be smart. we're equal, not better, and we should stop trying to demean men.
 Qua Quidam · Sat Dec 08, 2007 @ 01:15am · 0 Comments |
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