Devorgilla
Dickens, I agree with you. Women need to acquire the same sort of power men have. I believe a lot of it is based around ownership of land and property and means of earning a living. Men for centuries have set the bar high and what is really annoying them in modern times is that we can control our fertility and whether we decide to give birth or not. We are therefore more free to challenge and enter their world, and demand by right what they have. What's more we win that right - it is not given to us. I hate that expression - my husband allows me to do this, that or the next thing. I earned my money all my life and no one tells me how I will spend it once I have paid my whack into the house. I cannot believe the number of women who don't even have their name equally on the property. One of the best things my mother ever taught all her daughters was to look after ourselves first, last and always as men have done it for centuries and it hasn't done them any harm. Thanks Mum.
Well taught - your Mum!
I once worked with a rather fierce Scottish guy - older man with four daughters. I remember a young whippersnapper (male) in the office banging on about a "woman's place" in society. My Scottish colleague glared at him and said in his wonderful accent, Laddie, a woman's place is where ever she decides it is. I suspect his daughters appreciated their dad.
Of course, some men will go along with the myth of empowerment attached to women who pose half naked, sell sex and work in the porn industry... "they're exercising their freedom to choose" I was told by one irate male when I challenged him. As if men have ever tried to prevent women from selling their bodies!
Different story if women exercise their freedom to choose in the Board Room or in government though!
Of course, not all men are like that, thank goodness.
