What is the most important gender related issue in your opinion?

How's it going, everyone? I figured I'd drop in for a bit.





The question is above, of course, but try to be specific, i.e., "Rape," "Equal Pay," etc.





Give your reason(s) why as well, if you like.

What is the most important gender related issue in your opinion?
I am not sure it is the most important, but the most distressing in my eyes is the genocide on the female gender in many countries around the world.





Just who do they think will give birth to their sons in the future?
Reply:I have two actually





1- rape and how i see a lot of dumb asss remarks from posters as if they are trying to make it ok or give it reason. it is a Haynes crime and should be always treated as such.





2- women thinking it ok to nail a guy in the groin, it is made to be the thing to do under any reason. it should be a sex-crime as any other sex crime and carry with it the label that sex offenses give guys.
Reply:Same sex marriage





Obviously it's the most important issue of our day. A great deal of different levels of society are affected by this issue, whether or not they all discuss it.


It has become a major political issue as legalizing same sex marriage transgresses what was once strictly the domain of religions around the world.


Where it has already been legalized, it has affected business expense(providing additional health care). Where legal, it affects the tax system. Where legal, it affects the lives of parents who don't believe in it, who have to explain to their children same sex couples' lifestyles.


These are but some of the many and complex reasons.
Reply:In westernized countries, the way women wield power in relationships and the denial of it. I'm of the opinion that this causes most men %26amp; a lot of women to marginalize women's issues like equal pay, single motherhood, and other real issues. In 2nd and 3rd world countries, there's an immense amount of work to be done.
Reply:The wage gap
Reply:Single parenthood.





Both parents being actively involved in raising a child, not only does the child benefit, but a stable home also decreases crime rates, early pregnancy etc., and helps society as a whole. Also, women (who are the majority of single parents) will feel less burdened and will have more time and energy to pursue their individuality.
Reply:Getting rid of feminism.
Reply:Feminism's control over the gender discourse, and the consequent one-sidedness of the consideration of the issues. It's not just a matter of specific concrete issues and voices, but of methods, criteria, and presuppositions. The phallocentrism of the past is treated as naive or worse, but the uterocentrism of today is treated as omniscient and benevolent.


___That's exactly what the phallocentric thinkers of the past thought, too, and the feminists who devised the critique of phallocentrism have no excuse not to have applied their critique to the modern age and its underlying trend toward uterocentrism. They can't claim ignorance about how gender-bias infects method, criteria, and presuppositions, and yet feminism avoids any such considerations when it involves looking in the mirror.


___The result is the very same sort of collective self-delusion that developed toward the end of the Middle Ages among the movers and shakers of the patriarchy. And since feminism infects the educated human-affairs discourse with this delusionality, the educated world's ability to solve human problems is diminished.


___We look back on Ancient and Medieval history with hindsight, and see how their unintended consequences and ignorance contributed to their characteristic problems. Future historians will look at us the same way, as backwards and superstitious, and see that the "progressive" and "sophisticated" trends of conventional wisdom lie at the center of our ignorance. It's just collective human ignorance at work.


___There could have been a huge lesson about the human capacity for intellectual self-delusion in feminism's critique of phallocentrism. Feminism, however, is more interested in acquisitiveness of money, political power, and the base freedoms of physical and material gratification than in the intrinsic value of truth and self-knowledge, and so the opportunity has thus far been squandered. Such a lesson would have pointed the way to some authentic assumption-questioning and towards understanding that what passes for it today is more likely to be the questioning of the assumptions of the prior era or of the "other guy", which is pretty trivial stuff.


___People talk about learning from history, and the human tendency for self-delusion was brought into high relief by the critique of phallocentrism. And there had never been such a golden opportunities for anything like this, since the patriarchy of the past was the first to keep history, to document its intellectual innovations, and to begin the process of the accumulation of such innovations. Only after such a phase of history was over could the whole process be examined with the benefit of hindsight.


___Feminism, though, isn't interested in the broader view or with getting at an important truth about the human condition. Its focus is too centered on self-centeredness as an epistemological goal, on subjectivism and the justification for emotion-based judgments per se, and the importance of politics in human literature and even science. What trips feminism up is that its bias is itself toward the justification of the subjective, the self-centered, and the biased.


___And as feminism and related ideologies keep pushing the idea that there's no general truth about the human condition, and nothing to be learned about studying the human conditioned that can be put to use solving human problems, the world keeps decaying. And conventional wisdom never thinks to ask if some of the bad trends might be due to the inintended consequences of "progressive" thinking, as they always have been before.
Reply:Misandry.





The growth of misandry in popular culture, and the mainstream's acceptance of misandrist ideology. The misandrist invasion and corruption of feminism (which once stood for equality).
Reply:For me, as many of you know, is rape.





I have a sense of humor, and am usually open-minded about almost anything else. But when it comes to this subject I am admittedly black and white.





I hate the word; I hate that it happened to me; I hate that it happens to others (men, women and children); I hate that others lie about it happening to them when it didn't; I hate jokes about it; I hate the thought of someone experimenting sexually a "rape" scenario...





I think you get the picture.
Reply:Last time I checked there were no important gender related issues. Everything is fine as is. Why change something if things are going well?