"Treat me equally in every way, but remember that I'm still a woman". This is where the confusion is happening. Women seem to swear by that statement, but no matter how you look at it it's the equivalent of dividing by zero. A paradoxical black hole that could make Stephen Hawking get up from his chair, run 100 miles and then jump off a cliff.
In an era of modern technology and comfortable living where innovations have made everything intellect-based and so much easier, it's becoming more and more difficult to define the difference between genders, and those differences are becoming more and more irrelevant. BUT the transition isn't complete, and could possibly never be fully complete. Chemically males and females are still different, wired to think differently from birth**, and generally those differences have always caused an inconvenience for women in 95% of "omg sexism!" cases.
The very word "sexism" has become synonymous with the word "female" despite the fact it's supposed to be implying the same severity to both men and women. I don't even feel like calling it "sexism" anymore, how about calling it "things men do to women"? Or "stuff women yell about a lot"? Sounds far more relevant. Like the past 500 threads on this matter have seen women as the victim/target of sexism, I think we can safely conclude it's a thing that just HAPPENS to females a lot.
And on the topic of wanting "equal treatment", in the past 10,000 years of recorded history there hasn't been a SINGLE culture/society/civilization where women were expected to do
exactly the same work as men, take on exactly the same roles, and therefore be treated exactly the same. No such thing exists or has ever existed, and even if such a society did exist it obviously didn't fucking work and they went extinct.
No, the problem with sexism is that women are completely DIVIDED on the matter of just how far "equal treatment" should be pushed. And because of this division of opinion, obviously there will exist some women who switch sides when it's convenient for them, they can use that loophole to dodge work/responsibility. Some idiotic women do this subconciously, without even realizing how they are abusing the loophole. Not all women, only some.
But it still brings up a very real issue in today's world - women should be considered equal, but to what extent? Where is the line drawn? Is it drawn where it's convenient for them? Or is it drawn where it can hurt them? Can the MAJORITY of women come to an agreeable answer? As soon as that happens, we'll have something to work with instead of arguing over all day.
Some really stupid feminists keep bringing up the army and the lack of females in the frontlines, and YET they have the fucking nerve to say "well of course the entry requirements should be lower for women!". Holy crap, that is all I can say.
**In the very womb gender differences start to arise, the different levels of testosterone/oestrogen have a significant impact on the way we think from our very first BREATH. No, society didn't tell that newborn baby boy to go straight for the toy resembling a mechanical digger. Nor did society tell the baby girl to go for the golden-haired doll, she doesn't even know what the hell it is, it simply attracted her curiosity far more than the digger. Many tests with countless babies keep showing this. We are chemically different, our brains are wired different from birth - over time society has done nothing more than strengthen this notion and fine-tune our capibilities into doing what we do best as males and females.
barbzilla said:
I understand why she did it, I am not a dunce, but by her doing it she shows the hypocrisy inherent in such statements. I think we need to embrace our differences and get over this whole rigid equality thing. I think we should be treated as equals, I don't think we should ignore our own personal strengths and weaknesses. I think women would make better snipers as they are more limber and tend to be smaller, this means they can get themselves into tighter places and stay there for longer periods. Meanwhile in a fist fight men are better suited due to size and strength differences. This doesn't mean there aren't exceptions to the rule, but that is kind of the point isn't it? Some people are better suited to other jobs, stop making generalizations on both sides of the fence.
Video games are great, I know! But they don't show you the part about sniping where you have to carry ~20-25kg of equipment and climb/hike up to 10km+ on foot in hostile areas and difficult terrain. They also don't show you the part where the snipers are put through even MORE gruesome physical training compared to frontline soldiers/marines, people can't simply walk into the army and tick a box which says "I wants 2 be sniper!", this isn't Call of Duty.
So of you think it's a good idea to start enlisting small flexible women into the army solely for the purpose of becoming sniping specialists some day, all I can say is...well actually no, nothing needs to be said
