Monday, September 20, 2010

Gender Neutral


The article, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” states that the government should aim to eradicate social behaviors where women are forced into subordinate positions.  I feel like this is the part where Miss America says she wants world peace.  To accomplish complete and total equality is like achieving world peace… doubtful.  I am an optimistic person; however, we don’t even know what standard of equality we are seeking.  Every woman in the world strives for a different form of equality.  Some women want equality in the workplace, home, politics, and religious institutes.  Some women want safety and protection.  Some women are content with the man being the provider because they like having less responsibility.  Some women want to be the provider because they want a gender neutral.  But what is gender neutral? Can we even define this?  How do we strive for something we cannot define?  Even as our society becomes more progressive and open to new ideologies, we still look subjects like homosexuality, transgender, and male-female role reversal as “weird.”  Our society likes to say that we are open to new things, but then we say little Billy Brown down the street plays with dolls.  “They better straighten him out or he’s going to turn out odd.”  While society has made great strides in race and gender, we have a ways to go.  I wonder if we will ever be content with the level of equality between different genders and races. 

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