I was recently called a feminist for appreciating a woman who had earned a master's degree in Chemistry in the mid 1960's. She did some horrible things with her career, which was saddening but no better than the many men who were involved as well, but I thought it cool that in a time where it was frowned upon for women, she managed to get a degree. It was in a simply documentary, and a fleeting comment from me.
Woman gets a degree? Cool, you go girl. Now stop and reevaluate your life because you shouldn't be wasting your time killing people in the Cold War.
However, the person I was with told me that I was being liberal in thought, and that it wasn't spectacular that anyone got a degree in Chemistry because, I quote, "It's easy. The fact that she was a woman didn't make it special, she was just as bad. You're such a feminist."
I want to get one thing across: I wouldn't consider myself a feminist. The word is too liberal, while their consideration and ideals regarding rights and human life are flawed. I do, however, support women's rights to vote, and their right to be equally treated as men in the workplace. Call me a feminist, but I believe in natural equality.
So the fact that a woman even got a master's degree in Chemistry was cool for me.
And to whatever twat first believed that women were weaker because they couldn't do a man's work hadn't obviously tried to do a woman's work. God was very specific and intricate when he first created mankind. There were no accidents. Men were to provide, and women were to bare children and care for children while being cared for by the head of the house.
This does not make us weak. This does not make men strong. It is simply what we were designed for. Why women will get daycare jobs easier than men, and why women have more trouble getting a job that's physically more trying. It's a fact of life, and one that does well to not put one sex before the other.
In Spartan society a woman could only get a gravestone when she died, if she died in childbirth.
When could a man get a gravestone?
When he died in battle.
They recognized the importance of women, treated them fairly and even get them an equivalent honor as the men. Not every society is as fair. I would even consider the American society to do an injustice to the women as well.
So yea, a woman getting a degree is kind of cool to hear about. The End.
We may look cute and fluffy with our pink and sparkles, but do not think for one second think that we are weak, because the will of God is ahead of the world, and through him, all things are possible.
-Gwen Keller
I agree completely with you on this, men and women were designed differently to do different jobs, not that men can't run a household or not that women cant do manual labor, we are just better designed for specific jobs.
ReplyDeleteOn the being a feminist thing. Not true, Katherine Hepburn was famous for being Spencer Tracy's mistress . She broke up a marriage and destroyed someone's home. However she also stood up for other women. She is famous for protecting young actresses in Hollywood at a time were they were willing to make girls physically ill to make them skinny. Judy Garland talked about "hiding " at Katherine's place because if the press or a bully followed her she would tell them off and send them away. She didn't care what people thought of her, and was one of the first publically political women.
A modern day feminist is someone who doesn't believe men are capable of anything that they should be in charge because men are weak and I feel bad for these women because what did some jerk do to them to make them hate men so much? You don't wake up one day and decide you are going to condemn have the world for nothing. A feminist is someone who is filled with hate, a feminist is someone in a lot of pain and I don't believe that the women in history were the same has our modern day feminist, most just wanted the same rights as men, vote, job pay, right to property, right to speak and be heard. So why people accuse every independent woman of being a feminist is beyond me.