Do you believe in gender equality?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I think equality implies everything is the same and I don't agree with that. I don't believe giving everyone the exact same chance and providing them with the exact same treatment and resources is the correct way to encourage a better life for us all. As a analogy imagine there's a school on top of a hill and the only way to get there is by walking. Imagine that the school gave all the children new shoes to ensure everyone was treated equally and no one experienced pain from having to walk in bad shoes everyday. Now imagine a kid in a wheelchair goes to that school. The shoes seem pointless now. I think many gender issues are the same way. Being on a level playing field isn't the same as equality. And to go one step beyond that I don't want to live in a world that simply strives for everyone starting out on a level playing field. I want to live in and cultivate a world that has managed to pull everyone up to a level of ensuring a good life while also providing opportunities to do more for as many as possible. Is that impossible? Possibly but just because something seems futile doesn't mean it's not worth doing. For all we know simply the act of living might be futile. But It's impossible to know what you don't know and it's impossible to ensure that something is utterly futile until it's been tried.

Dargil · Accepted Answer

I believe in equal opportunity for men and women.
I believe in equally applied uniform qualifications and performance standards for men and women.
I believe equal reward equal work activity. Title alone is insufficient. If one person accomplishes more than another in the same job title, they should be compensated more.
I do not believe in enforced equal outcomes.
I do not believe "affirmative action, meaning a different standard for some than others.
I believe that The Creator made men and women with different capabilities.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

There will NEVER be gender equality. There are no two persons in the world that are equal. This whole thing about women have to be equal to men is shouted by insecure women who aren't good enough to succeed, so they blame "society" for their failure. Like how the heck can you be equal to a man when all men are not even equal. These same people who are "fighting" for equality don't even treat everyone around them equally.

RJGraveyTrain · Accepted Answer

Yes, but the actual definition of it. Not "I wanna be equal but you can't hit me back no matter what and you gotta pay for my food because you're a man" equality. Actual equality.

natured · Accepted Answer

Yeah I do, without supporting any Feminist side though, because equality is something that should come within ones relationship first, and then in the public :)

madhatters4 · Answer

sure in all areas men and women can be equal they should be equal

evenlift · Answer

You have to define what you mean.

The only true equality is political equality. That means that everyone should be free from violence, violence being the initiation of force, whether by the government or by private parties. I certainly support that.

If, however, by 'gender equality', you mean that the sexes are the same, I do not believe that.

If, by 'gender equality', you mean that force should be initiated by the government against people (as it happens, almost entirely against men) in order to attempt to make them equally educated or equally wealthy or equally healthy or equal in some other way, I do not support that. That is not true equality. As I say, the only true equality is the political equality of equal protection by the law against violence.

RSav4013 · Answer

I believe that everyone should be treated fairly but I also believe that there are just some things that one sex excells at more than the other. In example, the new netflix series Ultimate Beastmaster is a physical competition and men and women compete together. Ibthink you can guess who was better at this equal opportunity event. Women are typically better than men at a lot of other things though, particularly those that require emotion, sex appeal and/or empathy. So while I say yes give everyone a fair shot, nature has a way of dictating bias.

hellionthesagereborn · Answer

That depends on your definition of equal. Are we the same? No, thats fairly obvious. Should we be treated as equals under the law? Absolutely. The idea that women can do everything a man can do (I specify women because men seem to realize they cannot function in the same capacity as women) despite the physiological differences (everything from thickness of skin and bone to muscle mass and pain tolerance), biochemical makeup (womens primary sex hormones are estrogen and progesterone and go through cycles of hormone changes while male sex hormones are Testosterone and androgens and they have much stabler hormones), to neurological differences (women have more white matter males more gray matter in there brains) is absurd. I think the issue is that in our society we associate different with bad which is not the case. Men and women where built and evolved for different tasks each of us being most capable doing those tasks. In that way we are different but still equal.

godfatherfan · Answer

sure I do. But women really don't. They want equality in things when it benefits them. But ask a woman if she makes the first move on a guy? or pays for a date? or more importantly, how she will really truly feel if a guy asked her out, then made her pay for the first date? All you get is "I am old fashioned" or " I would never make the first move". And if they answer honestly, they will hold it against the guy if he doesn't pay, at least on that first date and for most dates.

BertMacklinFBI · Answer

define equality.

equal pay, the right to vote and apply for a mortgage are all good.

but women fighting to show their nipples is fucking retarded. there are many other women suffering in the world with real issues that actually matter. equality in the west is stupid these days lol.

HyperCynic · Answer

I am all for equal rights, men and woman are different at the core though. Admittedly there will always be exceptions and they have the right to pursue whatever they want. But equal rights should be based not on gender but rather on whether the individual is a capable individual in the area they have chosen to pursue. Chauvanism and misogyny are definitely a problem in our world, but so is Femenazi"ism" or people who dont understand the difference between femanism and egalitarianism.

Browneye57 · Answer

Equality is one thing, being the same is another.

People, genders, have equal value, but they certainly cannot be the same and each cannot equally do what the other can. Each has their talents and capabilities, strengths and weaknesses.

A couple is supposed to compliment each other, not be the same or equal in all things.

Adamnman · Answer

Gender/sex are literally two different things, like apple and oranges, both fruit but different.

We have always been "equal" in all things not reliant on our sex but I'll be damned if someone thinks we are beyond that when it comes to gender roles.

It's childish to argue about it because we all know their really asking which sex is "better" so they can feel better about themselves.

Men and women have equal responsibilities in their own roles.

vonasaurus · Answer

of course; sure, women and men are different in some ways. but, at the end of the day, we're all humans deserving of dignity and respect.

Anonymous · Answer

"Gender equality" is the most over-used and under-defined term in use today. It is absolutely useless without the context of a thorough discussion of a particular issue. It has no meaning on its own.

And that is one of the biggest problems with feminism... it throws around the words "gender equality" as if they have some subjective meaning, but when you press a feminist to discuss the nuts and bolts of an issue it quickly becomes clear that she has a very gynocentric concept of equality.

Anonymous · Answer

For the most part, yes.
There are still differences between the sexes that we need to recognize though, and we need to stop with social justice experiments in the military and such that are based on pretending otherwise.

FakeName123 · Answer

No, I don't. I explained some of the reasons here:

koeman92 · Answer

I do. And I think most people do. With that said, I am a firm anti-feminist as the feminist model and problem description has been rebutted by facts time and time again.

cth96190 · Answer

Both physically and intellectually, men and women are different by design. Gender equality is an absurd idea from the pit of Cultural Marxism. It is contrary to science and destructive of society.

Maik567 · Answer

I believe in equal rights for both genders, but genders just simply aren't equal. But just because we are different it doesn't mean we don't deserve the same rights and opportunities.

AleDeEurope · Answer

Yes, men and women should be treated equally by the law.

FissionStockMaster · Answer

Yeah, there's no reason one gender should be treated worse than another.

Redstang88 · Answer

All for equal opportunity. Doesn't mean we'll ever be equal, both sexes have our strengths and weaknesses.

Anonymous · Answer

There'll never fully be equality, so no I don't believe in it. I believ we can cgange some things, but not all.

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