Liberated Women

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Do you get the feeling that some women are so liberated that they move us all back into the past? They are out there mouthing or penning (or typing) their committment to women’s rights and accusing women and the courts and legislation of abusing men of their rights. Women, they say, should not get their rights off the backs of men- or some such thing.

Since men in fact until recently owned women (and children) in the same way that they owned property and live-stock and are still to come to terms with the fact that modern law legislate against such ownership and that they have to, in their daily lives, in family, economic and business relationships return dignity, respect, property, assets, money and common human rights to women.

If the men held the shared property in their names, the money in their bank accounts and investments; if society accorded them right of passage and limited the freedom of women; if men still revel in this sense of entitlement and freedom and struggle to translate the rights of women into their daily lives and relationships and try to hold on to the old gender power relations (even if they do this without fully understanding the power system and tools because they use these effectively anyway) where else are women to get their rights back from?

These so called liberated women out there fighting the battle for men to retain their superior but little boy status are so conditioned to be the tools of the system that perpetuate the patriachy that kept women and children subservient that they too can hardly see that the system educated and trained them to work against women and to protect the system that favours men.

Look around you: the women that rise to the top often are the women that side with men against other women and not all of them get top jobs. No, they do not even have to sleep around either; they just need to agree that the young girl that was eploited by the older or more powerful guy at work, got what she deserved. She just has to agree that since the woman earns a good salary  the father does not have to pay maintenance. She just has to agree that a working mother can not look properly after the child and that the father should get custody- it is quite irrelevant that he works too and that his mother or a carer will look after the child. She must just agree that the father should not need to help the mother arrange and pay for such care if the child is in her custody.

It seems that they are bent on giving back to men the ground they lost in this equity revolution. Somehow they forget that society is structured to keep this ‘a man‘s world’ and that this is the reason why new legislation was enacted as a compass to guide us all towards common human dignity.

 

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