War of the Sexes

What a serious title, isn’t it. I believe that in many parts of the Earth this is very urgent topic, for the women rights are not yet established as we, the old Europe, the crib of the civilization, would like them to be.  I know my view might be spoiled, naive, unrealistic. And I do realise I’m from the lucky ones, free to have my own view and even share it.

However, I think gender equality is nonsense. At least in common language, as you can see it next to the posters with “men are useless, more power to women”. That’s just sad.

When it comes to wages, for example – yes, every individual should be paid the same for the same quality and same amount of work, regardless the gender  …as well as the race, the age, the social background and anything else you could think of. In my opinion, the important thing is “the same amount, the same quality”, not the criteria. Beautiful thing about people is the diversity, the individual talents. If I became a superskilled lumberjack, I would expect to be paid better, than other, rather average, lumberjacks. 😀

My point is – why all the bad blood about setting the same standards for both sexes? I think far more important issue is to ensure the freedom of choice. Lisa wants to become a soldier, Mary wants to live a quiet life with her children somewhere in the suburbs and why not? Lisa may be terrible mother and Mary would probably kill her co-soldiers by accident the minute she would be given the gun. As long as they know their place, everything’s fine, isn’t it?

I get the evolutionary standards and I even agree with them, partially. I think women are just better with children, generally, and I would definitely choose a man as my bodyguard, if I was in danger. The opportunity to prove yourself in the field of your choice, thet would be IT. Unrealistic, naive. 🙂

I just think the true beauty about all this is to make the most out of your personal skills. You can be great with words, you can be the best strategist, you can be breathtakingly beautiful or perfectly ordinary, but when you find a place where this one thing is the one most useful..voilá. Anything else should not matter. But, to be honest, I don’t think we’re ever gonna get there. There are far too many things in the way, the secret motives, simple envy, the lack of self criticism..among many others. The drawback of the human nature. So, individually, let’s do our personal best! 😉