If men and women are supposed to be the equal to feminist…?
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And being a gentlemen (opening doors, pulling out chairs for ladies etc) is sexist, is a judgment of "be a man" nugatory? Shall we take a tonka trucks as well as GI Joes as well as give boys Barbie as well as Cabbage Patch instead?
For we who can’t understand, this has not about toys. It’s about group as well as women’s normal roles. Toys was only an example. Don’t get hung up upon a example, concentration upon a categorical point.
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Uhm – you’ll find feminism already has been attacking the above listed items.
In a feminists mind – everything is sexism… nothing is natural, nothing is ‘personal choice’, nothing is ‘fair… it’s all men’s fault.
No its just being polite
The notion that being ‘a man’ means GI Joes and tonka trucks is rubbish.
How did little boys achieve ‘manhood’ BEFORE GI Joe was around? Just lived in limbo waiting for the great god mattel to give them something to help them achieve the elusive state of ‘bein’ a guy’?
Men are men by virtue of their anatomy and physiology, and women are women because of their anatomy and physiology.
The range of behaviours within those categories is very wide. In fact ~ this will surprise you, there are boys in this world who have never owned a tonka truck and feel qwuite at home with their manhood, and women whose hands have never caressed a little pony of any colour!
Cheers
I think you should let kids pick their own toys if a girl picks a G.I. Joe and a boy picks a Cabbage Patch doll, so be it.
Yeah alot of men just have common courtesy even if fems try to hammer it out of us.
We’ll have double standards for perhaps forever, but children can choose whatever toys they like. We shouldn’t take away or force a toy onto a child just to set them up for a "normal" future.
That’s precisely what modern Feminists want, i.e. make boys act like girls.
As a feminist, I don’t open doors or any of those other so called gentlemanly sexist acts. But kids can play with whatever toys they want.
Well men definitely need to get the thought out of there head that woman are these little angel creatures and that we must take care of them. What heppens is they will soon find out that a woman will screw somebody over just as easy as anybody else.
"Be a man" makes no sense to me; a man has no choice but to be a man. It literally means "be as masculine as possible," which, for plenty of men, does not follow with their individual personalities.
Being a gentleman is just good manners, as being a lady. What in the world does this have to do with children’s toys? Guess what, I had toy trucks, train sets, Barbie, E-Z Bake oven, and play carpenter tools.
Teach the kids about courtesy and respect for themselves and others, don’t worry about the toys.
I don’t think that I would want to give up my right to equality in exchange
for occasionally having a man opening a door or pulling out a chair for me.
And no, I’m not opposed to having a man do these things for me- It’s a charming act of courtesy. Once again, feminism is a movement that demands equal and fair treatment of women- which would never have been an issue in the first place had women been given their due rights and respect as human beings. As for toys- for Pete’s sake, let the kid play with whatever toy they prefer.
You failed to make any point, nevermind a "main point".
Since your question is so hazy I will only add that two things don’t need to be the same to be equal:
(2 plus 2) = 4
Different, yet equal.
The best toys are toys which engage and stimulate a child’s imagination, like LegO building blocks. Let the kids play with QUALITY toys, including BOOKS BOOKS and more BOOKS.
Equality is not about men not being men or women not being women, it is about all having a equal choice and equal opportunities.
Firstly on the toy front, I did give my son a doll, my bit for feminism, and encouraged him to play with it for a while, it mysteriously disappeared without trace, not sure if he buried it or put it in the rubbish bin.
Even though gender roles are closing between men and women I believe there will always be more male mechanics and engineers and more women nurses and carers. In jobs like doctors and managerial jobs I think the numbers will become more equal.
Anyone who believes men and women are the same is deluding themselves, millions of years of evolution have made many differences in the genders.
Feminism is about equal opportunity, that more women will take time out from a career to raise the children will probably always be so and that more men will become firemen is down to the evolution of the genders. The point of feminism is that men should be able to consider that they might be the stay at home parent and that a woman can be a firefighter if she wishes.
Feminism is equal opportunity for women who want to do those jobs which break the mold from women’s traditional roles.
As an aging feminist I do not think it sexist for a man to open a door for me or pull out a chair, I consider it good manners.
Feminists don’t care about these customs, but the effect of the reasoning behind them: why do I need a door opened for me? why should I grow up learning how to be pretty rather than being active and adventurous?