Once again today on "Morning Joe" I heard a female expert declaiming "age old" truths stating indirectly that men are the "dominant gender." It was phrased this way on the tv show -- "if men are kept happy, everything in the home will go well."
I have become a cynic about all gender politics expressed by pundits on any side of the issue -- they all, no matter what their opinions, use uncommon common sense (or the Bible, or tradition, or customs, or whatever), to bolster a half-truth into a full one. Men are not superior; men were not created by God to be superior; men have not earned the right to be superior. Men are human -- with weaknesses and strengths; but men are not "first" no matter what the good book, the holy book, or any book has to say about the issue.
Men have a place in life; women have a place in life. Part of that place is determined by our physical functions; part by custom and tradition; part by our particular set of skills. A penis does not give men the right to rule over things any more that a vulva does. We are what we are physically (and psychologically as well) -- and we eke out our existence and our positions from our own peculiar standpoints.
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