I have to pushback on the ides that reverence of women is inevitable.
It's something that only cropped up in the 19th century and it has strong connection to the rise of romanticism and emotionalism in culture.
I don't mean to say that people should cease being protective of women, that is definitely biologically ingrained.
But statements like "women are the center of life" serve to place women on an unearned pedestal of importance. It downplays the importance of men and overstates the importance of women. Women definitely contribute to society, but men make their contribution as well, and, if we must say that ones sex contribution is greater (which I don't really like saying) I'd have to say that it's probably men's. There's no reason we have to revere women the way we currently do.
In an ideal society, the contributions would be equal, I'd say. Women who bear and raise children make a tremendous contribution impossible to quantify. Men, on the other hand, build the material world, keep it running, and defend it. Today, too few women bother to have children or devote themselves to raising them well (and I say this as a woman who never had children, so I did not do my part and I admit that).
I agree that most womens primary contribution will probably be their children.
However, there have always been women who didn't have children and who opted towards other paths. I'm thinking of nuns and such. Hildegard von Bingen comes to mind. I also think that fathering should be emphasized as one of men's contribution, seeing as how fatherlessness is deleterious to society.
I did not mean to “downplay the importance of men.” Rather I was trying to demonstrate the difference between the roles men and women have traditionally played in society, by stating that women were at the center of the family and the church, rather than at the head, which is where men have traditionally been.
But feminism is now trying to place women at the head of everything, which is a role they are not particularly well suited at playing, as evidenced by the fact that studies show that even women do not want to work for female bosses. But it also means there is no one to occupy the center, or if you prefer the heart of our world and its institutions. And that may help explain why we, as a society, are a lot less centered and united, and generally a lot more hateful and partisan than we have been in the past.
The reason why we are so much more hateful and partisan than in the past is because women are at the center of life right now.
No, women shouldn't be at the center. Women aren't the center of anything.
The world shouldn't be set up to prioritize women. Women need to be seriously sidelined in the world that we live in.
The distinction you make between the head and the center sound like new agey mumbo jumbo.
In the past, women were prioritized less, and men were prioritized more relative to their current positions. They were both pretty much equally prioritized in their respective domains. Women were less of the center than they are now, and it was for the better.
I have to pushback on the ides that reverence of women is inevitable.
It's something that only cropped up in the 19th century and it has strong connection to the rise of romanticism and emotionalism in culture.
I don't mean to say that people should cease being protective of women, that is definitely biologically ingrained.
But statements like "women are the center of life" serve to place women on an unearned pedestal of importance. It downplays the importance of men and overstates the importance of women. Women definitely contribute to society, but men make their contribution as well, and, if we must say that ones sex contribution is greater (which I don't really like saying) I'd have to say that it's probably men's. There's no reason we have to revere women the way we currently do.
In an ideal society, the contributions would be equal, I'd say. Women who bear and raise children make a tremendous contribution impossible to quantify. Men, on the other hand, build the material world, keep it running, and defend it. Today, too few women bother to have children or devote themselves to raising them well (and I say this as a woman who never had children, so I did not do my part and I admit that).
I agree that most womens primary contribution will probably be their children.
However, there have always been women who didn't have children and who opted towards other paths. I'm thinking of nuns and such. Hildegard von Bingen comes to mind. I also think that fathering should be emphasized as one of men's contribution, seeing as how fatherlessness is deleterious to society.
But yes, I pretty much agree.
I did not mean to “downplay the importance of men.” Rather I was trying to demonstrate the difference between the roles men and women have traditionally played in society, by stating that women were at the center of the family and the church, rather than at the head, which is where men have traditionally been.
But feminism is now trying to place women at the head of everything, which is a role they are not particularly well suited at playing, as evidenced by the fact that studies show that even women do not want to work for female bosses. But it also means there is no one to occupy the center, or if you prefer the heart of our world and its institutions. And that may help explain why we, as a society, are a lot less centered and united, and generally a lot more hateful and partisan than we have been in the past.
Again, disagree.
The reason why we are so much more hateful and partisan than in the past is because women are at the center of life right now.
No, women shouldn't be at the center. Women aren't the center of anything.
The world shouldn't be set up to prioritize women. Women need to be seriously sidelined in the world that we live in.
The distinction you make between the head and the center sound like new agey mumbo jumbo.
In the past, women were prioritized less, and men were prioritized more relative to their current positions. They were both pretty much equally prioritized in their respective domains. Women were less of the center than they are now, and it was for the better.