Ok, so, how many men does it take to screw in a light bulb?
You’ve all heard the jokes zooming around office inboxes, circulating amongst groups of gossiping girls and bitter feminists. Recently, it’s occurred to me that women are not advancing the feminist cause. They’re promoting a new one: the anti-men campaign. There’s much eye-rolling, lack of confidence in men to carry out simple tasks and a lot of confusion about gender roles.
I was recently considering the ‘gender gap’ whilst on the bus the other day. As you do. I saw a woman screaming at her, perhaps, partner. She had him pinned against the wall. No one was calming her down. Most were smiling. This was literal male-bashing and the worst kind I’d ever seen. For too long men had reigned supreme; had denied women the vote, confined us to the domestic home, thought us intellectually inferior, even later, talked of their “bitches” and “whores” in rap culture, yet, women got their own way and are taking revenge for years of suppression? But that’s not right. When can we agree that “feminism” has gone too far? Apart from the literal male-bashing, male put-downs are a reflex amongst young women. It even seems common amongst my friends who boast of their ‘play’ of men. Whilst their partners are loyal, honest and mostly, sensitive, the girls are exercising their ‘independence’ and treating men like ‘bitches’.
You only have to review every year of GCSE and A-level results in schools to see the ‘gender gap’ at work: boys do not do as well as girls. This trend cannot merely show that girls are better. Our society has incorporated women as equals to men, yet, in the process has made it acceptable for men to fall behind, lose confidence and be susceptible to women’s male-bashing as a result: the gender gap is increasing in favour of women. Women want to dress like men, drink like men, have high-flying careers, be a successful mother and still demand men to hold doors open for them and act in a chivalrous gentlemanly way. Ladies, it’s clear that we can’t have it all. I’m not saying this as an anti-feminist either. I am a feminist and fully believe in equal opportunities and rights for women. However, I also believe that men and women are equal but different and men also need a little R.E.S.P.E.C.T (thank you, Aretha).
It’s time to stop reinforcing stereotypes, tearing men down to boost women. Otherwise the future won’t be bright for us girls: it’ll be heralding divorcees clubs and ITV’s ‘Loose Women’. No thanks.
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- Jenny Williams
- I'm a 21-year old neurotic. I have a keen interest in the arts. I sing and play the piano and guitar, as well as writing songs and performing with my band, Suitcase. I also enjoy oil painting, walks in the countryside, reading contemporary fiction, salsa dancing, old films and photography.
1 comment:
Good post. Most men don't notice the misandry, they're too busy.
Don't buy into the radical feminist revisionist history about men oppressing women in the past. That's not really true in this country. Try telling that to my great-grandmother, as my great-grandfather was killing himself in a dangerous mill to provide for his wife and children at home. That was the norm. You think that was men's idea? It was the way it was, and men had no choice in it. Women have always ruled the roost and run the household. It was the man's role to be "breadwinner" while the woman stayed home. You think THAT was men's idea? When the economy exploded and education flourished and more people became active in society, it was primarily certain women's group who tried to keep women from voting.
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