It’s my contention women are the physically, mentally and emotionally weaker sex.
While some women are stronger than some men, and most women are stronger than most men in some physical, mental and emotional regards, such as women generally being better at some aspects of language comprehension and expression than men, overall, as a whole, women are the weaker sex.
This doesn’t make them inferior thou.
Women’s real advantage over men is in their capacity to give birth.
This approximately compensates for their physical, mental and emotional deficiencies.
Most relationships take women’s weakness into account, consciously or unconsciously.
Men are more likely to be attracted to and select a woman equally strong or weaker than them, conversely women are more likely to be attracted to and select a man equally strong or stronger than them.
A woman who’s as mentally and emotionally strong as a man, has more value than him, especially if she’s young, fertile and attractive, for she can give birth in addition to her strength, where as he can’t.
Women are generally needier than men, physically, mentally and emotionally, in relationships.
This doesn’t mean men don’t have as many physical, mental and emotional needs, in fact if anything they probably have more (just as more sentient mammals like primates are both stronger physically, mentally and emotionally, and needier than less sentient mammals like rodents), it’s just that because men are stronger, they’re expected to fulfill most or all of their needs themselves, where as women expect men to fulfill most or in extreme cases, all of their needs for them.
In the present incarnation of western civilization, women are supposed to be equally capable as men, yet they’re behind, economically at least, not necessarily in all other ways but in many, and in our economically oriented society, men are perceived as having major advantages over women.
In order to maintain the facade of economic parity, feminism blames patriarchal institutions for unjustly discriminating against women, presumably once these institutions have been purged of their patriarchal vestiges, women will rise to their rightful position alongside or surpassing men in terms of wealth, power, rank, status and prestige.
However this is likely just a pipe dream, women will probably always be economically disadvantaged, because they don’t work as hard in some cases, or they’re not as capable in others, averagely.
Women are given a leg up by the system to compensate them for the supposed injustices of a deeply entrenched, but nonetheless covert patriarchy, when the reality is: there is little-no covert patriarchy, and where it exists, it’s often justified, as women have earned their reputation for being weaker.
What we have today is institutionally and legally sanctioned matriarchy, where as before women were more dependent on the men in their lives for help.
So if women are weaker than men in most, but not all ways, averagely, than what ought their proper role to be in society?
Should they be treated like children like is custom in Islamic society?
Or are things fine the way they are now?
Perhaps their nature lies somewhere in between children and adults, albeit a lot closer to adults, and they should be afforded the same rights, freedoms, and responsibilities they had in say antiquity or early modern Europe and North America.
Myself I’m not exactly sure, but I will say this, I detest double standards.
If women are given as many rights and freedoms as men, they should have as many responsibilities, they shouldn’t be bailed out by the state anymore than anyone else is.
All their financial and whatever other inadequacies shouldn’t just be assumed to be men’s responsibility or wrongdoing.
Whenever they have a shortcoming, at the very least the possibility should be strongly considered that women are biologically different than men, that this mightn’t be and probably isn’t all men’s fault.
And if they aren’t given as many rights and freedoms as men, than they shouldn’t be held as responsible, either, men ought to be held more responsible for themselves and women, as they were in the past, and face stiffer penalties when they fuck up, or when things go awry.
Both men and women shouldn’t be able to have it both ways.