Feminism

My job is starting to make me loathe Dell. Not so much Dell computer, as Dell tech support. Everytime I get contacted by someone at Dell I cringe and pray they have reached me in error. Oddly enough, this seems to work 80% of the time. That other 20% though...oh the horror that is Dell.

Anyways hopefully Dell users can stop contacting me long enough for me to post something. Today I'm writing on the topic of feminism. Most people will think of this as a controversial topic. Sadly, this is because people have been indoctrined that radical feminism is all there is to feminism. The basis of all forms of feminism is that women should be treated equally to men. That is equal pay, rights, power, etc. The only thing that really keeps this even close to being controversial is the fact that men want to maintain their power. Those who are in power tend to want to keep it that way. A professor of mine once suggested that the source of the men attempting to have power over women is that before DNA testing men had no way to tell if a child was his, but women always knew which children were theirs. This created a huge power imbalance for men wanting to carry on their bloodline.

It is easy to say you want women to be equal, but it is very hard to find someone willing to give up the advantages the inequality brings. How many male politicians do you think would be willing to step down so we could have equal female representation? How many business executives would be willing to take pay cuts so their salaries could be the same as their female counterparts? How many CEOs would be willing to reduce profit margins to give women the raises they'd need to make the same as men?