stevevw
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That you don’t see my point and want to take things to gender wars and make out men just want to deny women’s rights just proves my point. I never said that women should be denied any rights. Both genders should have equal opportunity. But sometimes men just like women may fit the bill better due to their differences and this has nothing to do with denying women’s rights.So, @stevevw, which rights would you deny women as the "natural and right" thing to do?
Education? Employment? Social participation?
For example men dominate jobs that are usually associated with using things, using their hands such as building, dirty jobs, outdoor jobs or dangerous jobs or fighting jobs like in war. That doesn’t mean women cannot do those jobs but men usually end up in these jobs as a natural process. Women are more likely to do jobs associated with people, caring and socially associated jobs. But once again this doesnt mean women are not good at other industries and have a right to do them. We are talking about on average.
Taking this into consideration we shouldn’t then say that men are creating some patriarchy by dominating these industries. But this often ends up being the case. Some people want equal outcomes for all job classifications regardless of gender differences which is unreal and unnatural.
If we look back in the past we need to take this into consideration because a lot of occupations were based on dirty, hard, dangerous and outdoor work. Look at the pioneering times with farming this is associated with dirty and hard back breaking work. It was naturally suited for males but that didn’t mean women could not do these jobs. It just naturally ended up that way and there was no patriarchy going on.
Men also went to war as men are usually more aggressive and use force where as women usually are more caring. That doesn’t mean women cannot be in the military. But it is natural that men will dominate these fields. A lot of the time in the past people were poor and there were no jobs and it was a case of survival where both genders worked together.
But men usually felt responsible for fending for the family especially when there were children involved. Males are on average stronger and they feel their role is the protector and defender of the family and this is important for their self-worth.
The patriarchy was and is usually created by a smaller group of men who had power and wealth and wanted to dominate so they kept that power and wealth. Capitalism has a lot to do with it as property became all important and money drove people to dominate in general. That is why most of the time the diputes about male dominance from women are associated with the board rooms, executives and high status jobs rather than the brick layers and labouring jobs.
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