Wasn't there anything good before feminism?

Jun 14, 2013

Take a close look at the cause for women’s emancipation; their cry for equality, equity and equal opportunities. Look at it squarely, both from their angle and, then, from the objective angle.

Men's say with Bob G. Kisiki
 
Take a close look at the cause for women’s emancipation; their cry for equality, equity and equal opportunities. Look at it squarely, both from their angle and, then, from the objective angle. 
 
I will not ask what you observe, for the answers will be too many to handle in a lifetime. Let me point out just one issue: Apparently absolutely nothing was right or good before feminism came into the picture.
 
Feminists and some of their advocates have questioned (and asked for change in) various aspects of a woman’s life and, when you consider these demands, you realise that religion, culture, family life and common sense were all ‘wrong’.
 
Because feminism, femininity and all corresponding variables are, by their very nature, incomprehensible, I will only cite one example from each of the areas mentioned above, though this is not to claim that there is only one ‘wrong’ thing with each of the areas. 
 
Let us start with religion. All the dominant (and the not-so-dominant) religions prescribe a society where the head of the family is/was man. No, not man to mean humanity; man to mean the person with masculine features, traits and attributes.
 
Pardon the semantic repetition. Religion prescribed that for the family to operate well, there should be roles for the man and roles for the woman. 
 
What does feminism prefer? That men and women share cross-cutting roles. Yet, in effect, they are not saying each should do a bit of the other’s work. They are saying that besides doing your bit, do some of theirs as well. It is called being supportive to your woman. 
 
What they do not seem to explain is why no man has ever cried out that his woman is not being supportive; he does all his (man’s) work alone.
 
When it comes to culture, it is even worse. Yes, culture has been guilty of some terribly imbalanced demands and stipulations when it comes to treatment of women. But was there absolutely nothing good in our culture relating to the woman’s place? Not in their dress? Not in their place in the home? Not in their contribution to society? Not in anything at all? Must you oppose everything just because something was got wrong in the initial order of things? 
 
Let me swallow an axe and talk about inheritance. In the original plan, men did not let their daughters inherit property because they thought, this girl’s going to get married (women then married, one way or another) and be well looked after.
 
On the other hand, her brother is going to seek a wife and will raise a family and need to look after it. So it is only fair that I bequeath my wealth to him/them. Now you will need to understand that this was not unfair then, because no feminist had come up to tell other women what some women tell innocent young (corporate) women now: Why rear a whole pig, if all you need is a sausage? 
 
Besides that being crude, it is also grossly wrong, when you reduce the entire marital setting to one activity or need. But in the current order, where many women have been misled to think the whole marriage arrangement was founded on flaws, of course then not giving daughters an inheritance becomes an injustice. Yet who started skewing things? No need to say it in black and white. 
 
Even the whole issue of submission of women to men has been abused. Common sense would tell you that because men, by their very nature, house egos their mortal bodies can hardly contain, they need to feel respected... revered... on top of things. 
 
What submission then does for the woman is that it makes the man think, this woman knows ‘her place’ and then you’ll see how he showers her with love. That’s God’s way. He says, ‘women, submit to your husbands, and men, love your wives’. 
 
God knows that men’s need is to be treated as king and women’s need is to be loved. Leave things that way and nobody lacks anything. Again, feminists come in and upset that order, and then they begin to demand affirmative action to restore what they disrupted… God!
 

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