Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Bonecrcker #98 - Are Women Children or Adults?

The logical conclusion that women are just children in adult bodies is that they need to be shielded from the consequences of their actions, just like children. That is perhaps the single most damaging assumption that has resulted in our current unfair and draconian system of legal, social and employment double standards. Women are not children in adult bodies. They are adults with all the responsibilities that implies. When one shirks his or her responsibilities there are consequences. It is both inappropriate and the source of all our problems with women for us to make up for their bad behavior, both as individuals and as a society.

Also, what do you do with unruly children after you have shielded them from the consequences of their actions? You punish them, so they won’t do it again later on. Punishing a woman for her own good is a one way ticket to prison. Again, women are adults, not children. You don’t punish them. Instead, you force them to accept the natural consequences of their own behavior. Eventually, men will figure this out and we will have a new system that decides how society reacts to an individual based on merit, not on gender.
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