The Trouble With Focusing on Women and Girls

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2011-03-12 21:24

Article here. Excerpt:

'It may come as a surprise that International Women’s Day was met with lukewarm enthusiasm at ForbesWoman headquarters. Feelings ranged from “but we cover women everyday,” to “what the heck is international women’s day?” to “yawn.”

Call it girl power ennui, but something about “celebrating” a holiday by hashing and rehashing the trials and troubles of women throughout the world just didn’t get our juices flowing. As the rest of the female world shared congratulations on the landmark 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something a little unfair about the whole thing.
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So why does the world (myself included) place to much emphasis on the empowerment of women and girls? Well, maybe it’s simply become politically correct. But according to Ogden, it’s a problem: “The “women first” approach has been increasingly captured by overly simplistic thinking about the poor and anti-poverty programs — with easily foreseeable, and already evident, negative consequences.”'

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My comment:

Meghan, you know as well as I do that there are some biological differences between men and women. Social conditioning plays a part, sure, but there’s a reason little boys in school don’t usually want to sit still and listen to a teacher like little girls usually do.

Why is our response to medicate these little boys with dangerous amphetamine-like substances rather than creating a more active learning environment for them?

Did you know that only 40% of college graduates are male? Is this really surprising with society’s focus on women and girls at the expense of men and boys?

Timothy claims women spend more on their children than men do? Absolute rubbish. This subtle sexism is counter-productive.

Perhaps Timothy is counting child support payments made by men and given to women (who have no obligation to spend it on the children). Why is it that for women, it’s “my body, my choice” but for men it’s “my body, her choice”? His blood, his sweat, his tears, his 60 hours a week, her choice.

What about all the good men who wanted to be involved in their children’s lives but were labeled deadbeat dads when they lost their jobs and couldn’t pay exorbitant child support fees?

Meghan, I’d urge you to research father’s rights, men’s rights, and a little thing called misandry. You are just seeing the tip of the iceberg here.

Thank you for the article.

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Submitted by jayhammers on Sun, 2011-03-13 17:10

I fully agree with everything said by jayhammers and to comment... "well said".I can only hope someday that the bias PC media will tell all the truth and not just from the side of feminist. Thank you.

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Submitted by jazzman on Sun, 2011-03-13 20:46