An interesting article about how society does much better when women are more actively involved. My post title is tongue in cheek, as I'm quite fond of men. My take of nations thriving under female empowerment is not as competitors with men but as complementaries in steering the Earth Ship. Perhaps because life is not as cheap to women in some ways things turn out better under their leadership? In most cultures, women appear to be less prone to send their children off to kill and be killed, and may have more of a stake in preservation. While men expel the seed of life, women take it in and nurture it. However it goes, civilization thrives with the empowerment of women. The photo here is of a woman, Margaret Battye, who was the first female lawyer in West Australia. I thought it was an intriguing image... The End of Men Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way—and its vast cultural consequences... "There’s no question that there exists a universal preference for sons." Steinbacher went on to complain about women becoming locked in as “second-class citizens” while men continued to dominate positions of control and influence... In the ’90s, when Ericsson looked into the numbers for the two dozen or so clinics that use his process, he discovered, to his surprise, that couples were requesting more girls than boys, a gap that has persisted, even though Ericsson advertises the method as more effective for producing boys. In some clinics, Ericsson has said, the ratio is now as high as 2 to 1. Polling data on American sex preference is sparse, and does not show a clear preference for girls. But the picture from the doctor’s office unambiguously does. A newer method for sperm selection, called MicroSort, is currently completing Food and Drug Administration clinical trials. The girl requests for that method run at about 75 percent. Even more unsettling for Ericsson, it has become clear that in choosing the sex of the next generation, he is no longer the boss. “It’s the women who are driving all the decisions,” he says... At first, Ericsson says, women who called his clinics would apologize and shyly explain that they already had two boys. “Now they just call and [say] outright, ‘I want a girl.’ These mothers look at their lives and think their daughters will have a bright future their mother and grandmother didn’t have, brighter than their sons, even, so why wouldn’t you choose a girl?” Why wouldn’t you choose a girl? That such a statement should be so casually uttered by an old cowboy like Ericsson—or by anyone, for that matter—is monumental. For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy—enforced through the rights of the firstborn son—has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions. Men in ancient Greece tied off their left testicle in an effort to produce male heirs; women have killed themselves (or been killed) for failing to bear sons. In her iconic 1949 book, TheSecond Sex, the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir suggested that women so detested their own “feminine condition” that they regarded their newborn daughters with irritation and disgust. Now the centuries-old preference for sons is eroding—or even reversing. “Women of our generation want daughters precisely because we like who we are,” breezes one woman in Cookie magazine. Even Ericsson, the stubborn old goat, can sigh and mark the passing of an era. “Did male dominance exist? Of course it existed. But it seems to be gone now. And the era of the firstborn son is totally gone.”... “Women live longer than men. They do better in this economy. More of ’em graduate from college. They go into space and do everything men do, and sometimes they do it a whole lot better. I mean, hell, get out of the way— these females are going to leave us males in the dust .” Man has been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But for the first time in human history, that is changing—and with shocking speed.... Up to a point, the reasons behind this shift are obvious. As thinking and communicating have come to eclipse physical strength and stamina as the keys to economic success, those societies that take advantage of the talents of all their adults, not just half of them, have pulled away from the rest.... With few exceptions, the greater the power of women, the greater the country’s economic success. ...In some war-torn states, women are stepping in as a sort of maternal rescue team. Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, portrayed her country as a sick child in need of her care during her campaign five years ago. Postgenocide Rwanda elected to heal itself by becoming the first country with a majority of women in parliament....

girls – Stellar House Publishing

Q: Afghan man: Selling daughters is 'common practice all over the country'

"A woman is worth less than an animal." "That's the tradition we have with daughters here in Afghanistan. That is common practice all over the country - you sell your daughters. You can sell them for a piece of land, some sheep or for money. That's our way of doing it." Well now, since it's your tradition and way, I guess we have to respect it. Let's welcome thousands of these folks into our lands, so we can respect their traditions. After all, we are a multicultural society, and we must bow down to and accept everyone's traditions! Islam has truly brought so many blessings to Afghanistan, since, even if this is a pre-Islamic tradition, the religion has obviously not made any progress in getting rid of it. On the contrary, Islam has encouraged this utter misogyny with its own virulent woman-hatred. It's my tradition to despise women-hating barbaric cults and to expose them for the evil that they are - will everyone please respect my tradition?

Q: Afghan man: Selling daughters is 'common practice all over the country'

"A woman is worth less than an animal." "That's the tradition we have with daughters here in Afghanistan. That is common practice all over the country - you sell your daughters. You can sell them for a piece of land, some sheep or for money. That's our way of doing it." Well now, since it's your tradition and way, I guess we have to respect it. Let's welcome thousands of these folks into our lands, so we can respect their traditions. After all, we are a multicultural society, and we must bow down to and accept everyone's traditions! Islam has truly brought so many blessings to Afghanistan, since, even if this is a pre-Islamic tradition, the religion has obviously not made any progress in getting rid of it. On the contrary, Islam has encouraged this utter misogyny with its own virulent woman-hatred. It's my tradition to despise women-hating barbaric cults and to expose them for the evil that they are - will everyone please respect my tradition?

N.B.2019-12-09T16:53:21-08:00Categories: Acharya S/D.M. Murdock|Tags: abrahamic religion, female genital mutilation, girls, gynophobia, human rights council, islam, kuwait, misogyny, muslim, quran, religion, sexism, unhrc, united nations, violence, women|

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