Why Can't Men Be More Like Women?
I'm a regular reader of Feminist blogs, particularly Antonia Zerbisias of Broadsides, because she's actually of the MSM (which matters, mostly because of how rare such a creature is in the MSM), and I've come to realize that there is even a scientific bias in favour of male characteristics being the positive in almost every study cited re gender. As if bigger is better and women will only ever be as good as men the more like them they become.
Well, it seems to me that the opposite is true of evolution and that men who become more like women are the better for it, as are the rest of us. That's my inverted take on the media's traditional one, anyway - turning men=positive into women=positive. But since I'm placing female characteristics as the positive, it would be - wouldn't it. If you come at the study from the opposite angle, your conclusion may be the same but it will be reported quite differently.
Anyway, part of being a Feminist is undoing a lot a lot a lot of programming that insists, in order to be successful, you need to compete with men on a male playing field. Fair enough. Except that women are now over 50% of medical students and law students (another positive standard that, well, I'd prefer a good nurse and a society that didn't require me to have a lawyer on call, thanks) - so maybe it's time to turn the equation on its head and play female=positive science now and see if women are suddenly more in demand than ever - especially in leadership roles.
Because women are never going to be as big as men. BUT men will never be as curvy as women, either. In terms of speaking up, as Ms Zerbisias talks about here: LetMeThinkAboutIt maybe women are just more thoughtful. My guess is that women are more concerned with the fallout of getting it wrong, but why isn't that considered a positive? Getting it wrong is the biggest problem with our current crop of world leaders - isn't it?
I mean, look at the world. Men run it. What could possibly be the reason for any of us to look up to the characteristics of the world's leaders - right now - as positive? So beware the boohooers about the Feminization of society as if that's a negative, as if making men more like women is a negative. Because I think it's a positive.
But, being a woman, I would say that wouldn't I. Well, no, actually. Being a woman, I would only say that if I was absolutely certain that I was right, that I was so sure of my rightness that I wouldn't be struck dead for saying it, that there is absolutely no way saying it could come back and bite me in the ass. That's because, as a woman, I think there's a lot more at stake than there probably is if I get it wrong. So I don't want to get it wrong.
Now why isn't that a positive characteristic given all we know about male leadership and that whole rolling of the dice thing they all do - not just with their lives, but with ALL of our lives? Because if MAD (and we seem to have gone beyond MAD in the west to "we can just wipe you out, as long as China isn't looking") represents the nadir of male leadership I'm not sure why female characteristics aren't the positive to which men should aspire for a change.
And with regards to speaking up/speaking out, I refer you to Fran Lebowitz - "enough with the vox populi already".
