Equality? Pfft.

As you may have guessed from the title, this is going to be a blog about sexism. Anti-sexism of course, I'm not about to stone my sister for marrying the wrong man or anything. Not that I have a sister but you get my drift. Anyway, contrary to what you may be thinking, this is not going to be about sexism regarding woman. I am talking about sexism against men & how some strands of feminism are bigoted & sexist in themselves.

Feminism is supposed to be about achieving gender EQUALITY. It's supposed to rid the world of negative prejudices against women & create a society in which the law treats both sexes equally (I am aware that this blog is not going to be the most accurate or detailed blog in the world because I am not intending to give anyone a lesson in the history of feminism: I intend to rant). I think anyone will agree that woman have been getting the short straw where many things are concerned & so the many policies that have come about as a result of feminism were needed.

However, radical feminists are taking it too far & it's time that somebody stood up for men. These woman advocate "separatism", saying that lesbian relationships are the only solution as they are the only ones that avoid "sleeping with the enemy". They claim that ALL men oppress women, ALL women in nuclear households live in constant fear of violence & merely changing laws will not solve the problem.

Personally I think that women like Germaine Greer would be telling a different story if they'd been acquainted with a throbbing 10 incher at some point in their dismal little lives but as it stands they haven't & so their narrow-minded & frankly alien arguments need to be challenged. I won't waste much time doing so because it really is too ridiculous to bother with, along the same vein as arguing that yes, Elvis is really dead, but argue I will nevertheless.

First of all, ALL women are constantly exposed to the threat of domestic violence? Where I come from, most men view women as delicate little flowers & would never lift a finger to a woman. Sexist principles granted but violent ones? No. Just because men are usually larger & physically stronger than women, this does not necessarily mean that they are going to use this strength to take advantage of women. It is not a man's fault that he is biologically different to a woman & so he should be judged on his actions & not his appearance. Assuming a large man is a wife beater is just as offensive as assuming a woman wearing a skirt is a prostitute.

What's more, what about the female to male domestic abuse, a real & serious crime that goes largely unreported due to the fact that men are often negatively labelled as "pussies" or "faggots" if they show any signs of weakness.

Which brings me to my next point. We are the ones who, for the most part, socialise our sons into wanting to be strong & powerful while at the same time teaching them that "boys don't cry" and "don't hit like a girl". With these ideas, is it any wonder that our boys shy away from nurturing female role models & instead aspire to be like the men they see in violent street gangs or gangster rappers instead? (These aren't fully my own opinions, I admit the last paragraph was a bit of A level Sociology regurgitation).

It isn't fair that boys are taught that they aren't "real men" if they choose to dress a certain way, keep out of trouble at school or display any kind of emotion.

Yes, we as a society have negative stereotypes about women that are unrealistic & offensive to modern day career girls but we also have cruel & unrealistic ideas of what it is to be a man too & that is something that society as a whole glosses over far too much.