Oppressed Majority: the film about a world run by women that went viral
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In fact, women often have to fight for the right to be soldiers. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_military#In_the_Un...)
Who's in control of societies with norms where women are supposed to be at home taking care of kids while men are programmers or something? Dudes. Unless you have a shadow conspiracy where presidents and capitalists are backed by women.
1. Trying to talk a a man out of becoming a soldier, for lack of anything better to do with himself.
2. Trying to talk a woman out of bearing a soldier, for lack of anything better do to with herself.
It's called "shared responsibility," and the version of feminism that tries to blame men for everything is intellectually bankrupt.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137411/Rasema-Handa...
Also I have had a couple of things from the video done to me by women. How should I feel about it?
Confucius once said “Let the ruler be a ruler, the subject a subject, the father a father, the son a son.” "Truly if the ruler be not a ruler, the subject not a subject, the father not a father, the son not a son, then even if there be grain, would I get to eat it?” (Analects 12:11)
And I'll add to it "Let men be men, and women be women. If the men are not men and women are not women, then all you'd have are a bunch of androgynous adults.".
It's possible for men and women to have equal status, but it is lunacy to suggest that men and women are equal, because they absolutely are not and cannot be. It makes as much sense to suggest dogs can be equal to cats, that apples can be equal to oranges.
To use your example around men being sent to war. Do you think that's entirely unrelated to excluding the perspective and ideas of half of the population? Such that we've chosen a narrow set of options for conflict resolution instead of including the wide range of human creativity.
Yes; I commented because was washing the film and feel repulsion for all the biased lies it tells, did you know men are also abused but just don't report it as much as women because they ridiculed and not taken seriously?.
I actually didn't downplay it enough just for the sake of not getting my comment killed by downvotes, if you want to know why you can learn from a wonderful lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqEeCCuFFO8
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/25...
I've spent a fair amount of time in Ulaanbaatar and know Mongolian history reasonably well -- it's unique in that it's got a strong warrior/frontier ethos to it, and has since... like, forever. There's very strong traditional gender roles in Mongolia within households, though the women fall into a sort of loose warrior-matriarch ideal like the way we see Sparta depicted in movies. But it's not "women's equality" the way, say, Scandinavia is.
It might be accurate, in a sense, but without context it's misleading. Mongolian society is really unique in that it shares its origins from steppe nomadic culture, traditional Northeast Asian (Confucianism, etc), Buddhism, and yet recently and still today leans slightly more towards the Russian sphere than the Chinese one, and has some elements of Eastern European culture.
The women there are entrepreneurial, but also typically interested in marrying young and having 5+ children. They watch movies and television which show female Mongolian warriors like Chinggis Khan's first wife, Borte. But they also like Korean soap operas.
It's a tricky to place to get one's mind around, quite unique, but potentially misleading in a Western-centric piece without context.
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Preemptive: I know what's coming next. Don't even bother asking me what the message is. Doesn't matter what I say, it'll spiral into a mess of disagreements and pointless debate. Here's a hint though... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7204058 . Open your hearts and tone down the logic-machine for just a moment. Allow yourself to feel.