"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
I have to admit to mixed feelings on this one. I would hope that no-one is urging a return to the times when women were chattels and as chattels were under the direction of father or husband as to what they did, where they went, how they dressed, expected standards of behaviour and so on. It's akin to slavery. I wouldn't like to think that a "return to chivalry" is, albeit with the best intent, really code for keeping women under control again.
I have to admit I don't find it attractive to see a young woman with a bare midriff and jeans down to her arse. That's just me. Young blokes probably think it's great because that's what they expect to see from young women. It's the fashion meme I suppose. But I would jump up and down with rage if someone suggested making it illegal or in some other way making young woman not bare their midriffs or drag their jeans down to their arses.
I haven't heard anyone whistle or catcall to a woman in years. It used to be really common here for blokes on building sites to do so when an attractive woman walked past. I don't know why it's not done any more, perhaps we all just got over it. But I think that's a good thing. I mean I don't care how strong-minded a woman is I would think that a bunch of blokes on a building site whistling and cat-calling would be embarrassing to say the least.
"Unbloodybreakable" DCI Gene Hunt, 2008
I despise womens liberation! I like to open doors for women, I like to change a flat tire in the rain for a strange woman or carry a heavy object regardless if she is 18 or 90... I really dislike womens equality because they are in fact not equal.
Perhaps the old traditions of the father giving away the bride is a tale tale hint as to where I'm coming from... In almost all cultures women have been dependant on the male as the protector of the weaker sex. Why does the father give away the bride, his daughter? Because she is of less value... a male son, before social security was the family member that would care for the father and mother when they could no longer take care of themselves. It was understood that a female child was of less value because when she married she became the asset of the man's family she wed... she even took his family name indicating she would support her chosen man's family in old age.
I concluded my assumptions of women as I matured in the 1950's as I matured... I was taught that men, by nature desire to sew wild oats and women, by nature are either good girls or bad girls... the bad girls would let you have their sex and that was good... the good girls would not let you have their sex until you and she were married and that was good... Every boy had multiple sexual experiences but once he decided to settle down would marry a virgin, a good girl. There were more girls than men for that very reason so boys could experience multiple relationships prior to settling down. A good woman was a must to sort out from the bad girls.
Women, good women had little to offer a man other than natural abilities to cook, clean and comfort her man... It was her sole reason for living to be the best wife and mother to his children once he had decided to settle down. She was to take care of her man and honor and comfort him with all devotion within her abilities, because she has no other function as a good girl.
Is everyone with me so far? Want a picture for your dart board? Women that act like little sluts appear in my culture to be bad girls, the ones created to take my wild oats while the ones that are conservative and honorable are to be protected with all honors deserving of a faithful life partner placed on earth to fulfill her purpose of feeding me, comforting me and bearing my children.
I stuck with that understanding through the age of 17... but it is my foundation of viewing women... women can do nothing for me that I can't do by myself so they are little value other than their designed purpose of good or bad girl. Now, I like bad girls and good girls but most of all I like a good girl in the public and a little whore in the bedroom. I do not like asking permission from any girl to do anything but take into consideration every action I take as it may affect my good girl... women are subordinate to men and they always will be, you can allow them to think they are equal but that is an impossibility... because a girl cannot be a good and bad girl at the same time. That is why men react to girls that act like bad girls the way they do.
German girls all want to be good but can easily be convinced to be bad. Korean girls are born to serve so they can't be bad until they meet a liberated American girl. American girls demand to be equal making them a flip of the coin... dress like a slut, act like a slut get treated like a slut.
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
---Thomas Jefferson (or as Al Sharpton calls him: Grandpappy)
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
---Thomas Jefferson (or as Al Sharpton calls him: Grandpappy)
Women are either seen by men as whores or ladies... That is the whole point of this thread... women wonder why they are male targets for sexual innuendos when they act like or dress like whores. Women should figure out how to advertise what they are about. If they want to give head then dress like a street whore...if they want to be treated like a lady then act like and dress like a lady.
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
---Thomas Jefferson (or as Al Sharpton calls him: Grandpappy)