[quote=FlyerInHi]CAr, like I said before women have the power they can use if they wish.
But you will never enlighten men to come around to your point of view.
Just think of it as a trade in the free market.
Men have manhood and virility. Women have reproduction and eggs. The reality now in the power dynamics now is that women want men more (they want to marry men and they want their company more). Flip it around and women will have the power.
Maybe it’s different in your household, but generally speaking, a women can’t simply want to marry a man and have kids with him and then want him to get enlightened. Make him beg for it and he’ll give the woman what she wants. She could wait a long time… But, in the mean time, she could form a union and get all the women together and, in the long run, it could work.
Society has changed. The laws have changed. Men can’t force women anymore.[/quote]
I fully concur with what you are saying regarding the potential power that women have, and are often totally unaware of, and have mentioned before that we might start to move more in that direction as a society. Europe has been traveling down that path ahead of us.
It’s the same reason that I’ve brought up naming rights in other threads; why in the world do we continue with the patriarchal traditions of naming children after men if those men aren’t any more powerful or important than women? If marriage confers no real benefit to women (or men), then why even go there? We can all just buy sperm or contract with surrogates to make our own children; totally unencumbered by the wants, needs, or desires of another person who isn’t obligated, and/or doesn’t desire, to do anything for us?
Some feminists, possibly even BG, would argue that this IS the direction we should take, as it would pretty much eliminate the need for men at all. But is that what we really want for society? Is that really going to put us — all of us — in a better position than we’re in now? I just don’t think so.
