Wegs, re your earlier, let me cut to the chase. Yes, this thread IS about sexism, specifically. But it HAS to be looked at against the greater picture. You can't take a thin slice of the pie and declare that it IS the pie and that's there is to it.
The lot of women and men, now and throughout the ages has been approximately the same. Each sex has suffered, enjoyed, gained, lost .. in approximately the same measure, though in different ways.
Men have suffered greatly in their untold millions and millions fighting wars for their respective states. Men have toiled and died in their millions in other ignominious, cruel, tortuous, usurious, abusive and hazardous ways .. and often to make a home for their wife and family, and always in the service of the state or some of some plutocrat sustaining his pile of wealth.
The state DOES NOT care about your equality. The state will foment within you, whatever idea is in it's interests. As prime examples, during the war years (1st and 2nd WW) the state fomented the idea that you had to sacrifice your security for your freedom. Now the opposite suits the state - you have to sacrifice your freedom for your security (witness your Dept Homeland Security, etc) .
In this era of extremely high (and burgeoning) cost of government, and rampant consumerism, the state / hegemony needs vastly greater numbers of tax payers and consumers. That's why the state makes it easy, no, virtually compulsory for you, to go off to work and give your kids to another woman to rear. Because it now has two more tax payers - you and the other woman (not to speak of the spin off effects to consumerism - two more spenders - that this has down the line).
In my country (Australia) fully 38% of the revenue to the legal and judicial system is derived via Family Court matters, i.e., dealing with divorce, who gets the children, assets, etc. And THAT'S why we have no fault divorce, and why divorce is so easy .. virtually encouraged. Because build into the Family Law Act, is the proviso that no matter who is at fault, no matter how frivolous or unfair or vexatious the litigation, the courts and the lawyers and the barristers, etc, will be paid as 1st CHARGE against the assets. There goes half - or sometimes ALL the house.
You are a mere vassal of your overlord - a slave to the state, with your 'female equality' notions and an investment into their income and future sustenance.
If it served the state that you should get off to a hatchery and spit out six little suckers over the next six years (ala Huxley's Brave New World) you'd be off on the next bus !
The lot of women and men, now and throughout the ages has been approximately the same. Each sex has suffered, enjoyed, gained, lost .. in approximately the same measure, though in different ways.
Men have suffered greatly in their untold millions and millions fighting wars for their respective states. Men have toiled and died in their millions in other ignominious, cruel, tortuous, usurious, abusive and hazardous ways .. and often to make a home for their wife and family, and always in the service of the state or some of some plutocrat sustaining his pile of wealth.
The state DOES NOT care about your equality. The state will foment within you, whatever idea is in it's interests. As prime examples, during the war years (1st and 2nd WW) the state fomented the idea that you had to sacrifice your security for your freedom. Now the opposite suits the state - you have to sacrifice your freedom for your security (witness your Dept Homeland Security, etc) .
In this era of extremely high (and burgeoning) cost of government, and rampant consumerism, the state / hegemony needs vastly greater numbers of tax payers and consumers. That's why the state makes it easy, no, virtually compulsory for you, to go off to work and give your kids to another woman to rear. Because it now has two more tax payers - you and the other woman (not to speak of the spin off effects to consumerism - two more spenders - that this has down the line).
In my country (Australia) fully 38% of the revenue to the legal and judicial system is derived via Family Court matters, i.e., dealing with divorce, who gets the children, assets, etc. And THAT'S why we have no fault divorce, and why divorce is so easy .. virtually encouraged. Because build into the Family Law Act, is the proviso that no matter who is at fault, no matter how frivolous or unfair or vexatious the litigation, the courts and the lawyers and the barristers, etc, will be paid as 1st CHARGE against the assets. There goes half - or sometimes ALL the house.
You are a mere vassal of your overlord - a slave to the state, with your 'female equality' notions and an investment into their income and future sustenance.
If it served the state that you should get off to a hatchery and spit out six little suckers over the next six years (ala Huxley's Brave New World) you'd be off on the next bus !
