[MD] NYT: The Feminine Critique

[Akshay Peshwe]

I didn't find time to read the whole article. But I can say, about the
gender role debate, is that women do have certain roles to play in society
that men shouldn't and just can't.

In articles like these, I find that attempts are made to overcategorise
gender roles -- there is a wide range of roles, but stereotypes such as "men
are more intelligent than women" do arise occasionally.

To be sure, the gender roles are founded in biological patterns of static
quality. Reproduction is one obvious example. But, if you observe the
continuum of mammalia, you notice that almost always the female is engaged
in bringing up the child, maintaining the home, etc. while the male goes out
to hunt. They are both necessary and complementary roles (ref. Yin and Yang
complementarity), without which the world cannot be sustained.

In modern times, there are all these feminist groups who, simply don't
understand the Law and want to make blind rebellion, and want freedom from
their traditional roles and want to do what the male is supposed to do. One
example is working mothers. My personal opinion is that they have to make a
choice: either they work or either they raise the children -- you can't do
both together, because obviously the raising children part is compromised.
Society cannot be held together by that kind of compromise. The most
immediate and appropriate example is the lack of culture found in most of
modern American teenagers. American parents, and grandparents, will not
agree with me when I say that, but I'm sure that with the cultural framework
that America has, it is doomed to break down sooner than later, unlike
Eastern traditions. European culture, in comparison, is far more civilised
and upholding of righteousness.

Akshay




On 01/11/2007, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
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