"Our generation is becoming so busy trying to prove that women can do what men can do that women are losing their uniqueness. Women weren't created to do everything a man can do. They were created to do everything a man can't."
That's the "sugarcoated" garbage that has been circulating across social media lately, with such a flare it's almost like it was believed women would be flattered by it. Some posters are getting creative and attaching horrifically ignorant and sexist degrading hashtags to bash women and feminists as incompetent mothers and destructive beings. I'm not one to remain silent, especially when other women are out there gallavanting this nonsense like a flag of pride. Does it build up their ego when they get likes and support from men for attacking their own sex? Do they genuinely believe themselves to be so extremely different that there's a genuine disconnect from men? Like we are really two damn different species? If you're of the "species" that believes that, God help you. If you're female on top of that, God help us all because the only one who has really screwed it up for us women are those women who bash, belittle and drag down the women.
Let me go ahead and break down what is genuinely wrong with this unfortunately over-glorified 21st century quote.
First of all, it breaks the cardinal rule every human being threatens me to remember, "Never generalize." So, really, is "our generation" entirely fixated on this fictitious agenda? I can round up a group within seconds that are busy trying to do so much more for women AND MEN than subconsciously morph females into males without the matching genitalia.
Second, why on earth do sexists have to be so dramatic that suddenly everything is an attack against men? If women are strong, pursuing higher education, ambitious, goal oriented, straightforward, opinionated, physically fit and employed, how does that suddenly make them so busy trying to prove they can do what men can do? And what makes men the only ones entitled to these necessities of life? Are we cramping your style with our existence? Oh, let me apolog...not!
Third, tell me how being human and following what makes one happy, successful and accomplished an avenue to losing one's uniqueness? Well, I guess it's not...if you have the right body parts.
Lastly, define for me, what are women supposed to be doing instead of being themselves? What are these "things men can't do?" Cook? Clean? Upkeep a house? Carry a baby for nine months and then spend the next 20 or so years raising it while spending eternity worrying and caring about it so beautifully? Be nurturing? Take a step back from egocentric thinking and look into someone else's soul? Of that laundry list, the only thing that men can't actually do is carry a baby in a womb and deliver it. Everything else a man can do, and it is unfortunate that many (not generalizing, so calm your horses) choose not to do.
So, the moral of the story is drop that pathetic lie. Women feminists of this century, and those rare but wonderful feminist men who stand with us, are not fighting for identity swaps. We are standing up for our rights to actually have a place in this life. In work. In the mosques, churches, synagogues, temples and any other house of worship. In school. In social groups and networks. In the conversation and at the table. If that threatens people enough to manipulate this legitimate necessity into some vendetta against men's place and women needing to just fill in the blanks that men cannot, you need some serious guidance. Find God this holiday season and stop trying to once again dictate how women are to behave and act. Recognize that this quote literally calls upon women to change. Nowhere in that quote does it clarify what men can do to ensure a woman's uniqueness has the chance to be seen in life as equally as "his" does. The quote does not even remotely depict the struggle women endure daily to not just have their uniqueness shine, but their presence, power and talents acknowledged and appreciated.
I cannot believe that even as our world falls apart in war, exile, corruption, famine, human trafficking, domestic violence, racism, there's still time to ensure that women are reminded of their supposed statuses based on a SOCIALLY constructed system.
