I think, since I'm a girl, feminism is one of the most important movements to me. The first wave was really important, of course – we needed to have the same rights as men. Of course, if you disagree with that, even this blog won't be right wing enough for you.
The second movement was pretty important too I think, because it was a social movement and women wanted to stop some bad behavior in the workplace. Okay, that's fair. I've been made really uncomfortable by men before (although the people in my life who have treated me the most poorly have always been women, with the exception of my ex husband).
But the modern movements have gone too far, in my opinion. So I'll talk to you about what I think about women;
I believe that men and women are different. No, not very different, not different species, just different in a lot of ways, some of which affect our behaviors, toward each other and members of the other gender. Our minds work differently and our tendencies are often opposites.
Since there are a lot of psychological and physical generalities I need to make, it would be good for anyone who has trouble hearing titles an definitions to try and think realistically. I know, everyone is a special snowflake and no two people should ever be grouped under one definition, but actually as a species we are more similar than we are different.
So of course there are abnormalities as there are with any statistics. When I say something like “Men are taller than women,” let's get out of that elementary school reaction we like to have, nOT alL meN aRe TALleR tHAn ALl wOMEn
I know. We all know. But on average, men are taller. The average man is taller than the average woman. If you take ten random men and ten random women, there's a good chance that their average heights will differ based on this statistic.
Anyway; one of the biggest differences between men and women to date is that men tend to be more interested in working with things, and women tend to be more interested in working with people. You hear feminists cite the “9 out of 10 engineers are men” statistic – basically true – but you rarely hear the flipside of that coin, “9 out of 10 nurses are women.”
Why?
Engineering pays more. So that means the inequality is unacceptable.
Men also tend to be willing to put more hours into one thing, whereas women tend to like to keep a healthier work/life balance. Men will devote to a career they want more obsessively and will sacrifice more of their free time or family life to it. Women tend not to want to work too much overtime or sacrifice their social lives.
This is one of the biggest reasons that there is an earnings gap between the genders in our country (note: I did not call it a wage gap); women tend to take lower paying jobs that support a family life better, and men tend to take jobs that require overtime and sacrifice. Also, more women in this country work part time than men. Women take time off to have children. We have other things going on.
Women are also less likely to ask for a raise. We're also less likely to pursue a career based on its financial stability. We're more driven by passion.
So what does this mean for men? Men are the ones working the jobs where there are high death rates. Men are a million times more likely to be injured on the job. Feminists will talk you to death about work statistics but they usually forget the ones where, you know, the boys die (men are also much more likely to be homeless and commit suicide for a number of reasons).
These are just the economic differences.
To clarify; I call it an earnings gap because a wage gap sounds like we make different wages for the same work. Which of course we don't because that's illegal (which actually I don't think it should be illegal but we'll get to that later).
What the feminists and progressives seem to have done is they've taken all the money that men have earned and all the money that women have earned and divided them without controlling the experiment for things like THE DIFFERENT CHOICES THE GENDERS MAKE THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES.
That's like saying there's a “children's gap” where women have more children than men – without controlling for the fact that women are typically the ones with the reproductive organs required to give birth. So of course women will have more children over the course of their lives than men will.
And of course men will make more money than women. More men are CEO's, more men own businesses, more men are willing to sacrifice everything to achieve their goals.
It's not a wage gap. I think most of it is a willingness gap.