It is a series of absurdities without any factual base. Absurd in the world of statistics and results, absurd in the world of multiple paths and complexity. The need in simple power oriented world is not to solve the feminine brain, but to keep the world in a state of believing change is not possible for some, because it just isn’t. The thought of threatening womanhood, threatening feminine humanity, femininity as part of all people, which is over and over again put to disgrace and denied, threat of the evolving womanhood that can evolve so much it is too much to take. What is manhood in this picture when men don’t want to admit female strength, equality nor superiority? It is difficult to admit a woman might be better at something. What does a manly man do other than attack. A capable woman is the threat, an offence.
Good question is what do we threaten as women who make and speak up and when does the threat begin? Strong opposition to feminism is clear indicator of fear men feel and many women conform, fear of change and difference, fear of losing balance, losing power, a grip over, tradition which we hang on to as our lives depend on centuries long oppression and belief that women are inferior. Amount of violence against women is very telling. It is appalling and common, almost, dare I say, an accepted way of keeping discipline. We must live in fear, because we want to survive. By being submissive we can do that, survive. All we do is survive in our routine-like identity looking after other’s survival. Women can survive terrible circumstances. Amount of violence speak of men feeling the need to state their position as leaders, solving complexity with simple solutions and in need of old solid unchangeable ideas. Where does violence lead is to more violence, fear, anxiety and despair. Violence seems to be the desired route and way of leading all around the globe. Strange leadership. Could women as leaders change that or do women imitate men? There is plenty of evidence that women’s intellectual capabilities are something else than inferior, it is surely one reason to feel weak and unmanly. It is also reason not to fall for imitating. Idea of female brain being less is rather strong without it being the fact. When women want to change their lives different men have to change their standing point. It can be a question of becoming humble listener instead of the one who gives advise and orders. That is where the difficulty lies. Who has a say over, who to believe.
Since woman is known to be physically weaker threat is somewhere else than what women can physically do as harm. We like to think physicality is the primary tool for threatening and shadowing anyone, a tool of violence, work, force and making evidence of grand size. Idea of threat and fear is bound to biology and physicality, fear of losing life dictates much, fear of abuse, oppression and hurt. What do women threat as themselves, as a gender and different, if they are allowed to be themselves, is the strictness of patriarchal way of living which is favored by many women and men as the way things should be. Feminism is a threat to a way of living and male dominance which is obviously extremely difficult to change and grow out from, because it alters everything we ground ourselves on. Male dominance sounds as it is violent. The reason there needs to be dominance of any kind can be unclear, but is taken for granted. Women are to dominate anything else but those areas seen as male dominated areas (there are quite a few), things women are suppose to dominate naturally. So women are naturally caring is a saying, parroting, not necessarily a fact. Anything else occurring, women doing or thinking is always seen as something extraordinary and a wonder in everyday order of things.
What is under threat is always question of pride, honor, deserving, power structure and dignity, and to whom these items belong. What is there to own and have. Very easily those things belong for men and men either grant them forward or choose not to which is seen also as natural order of things.
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