Renewed Imperial Germany wrote:Radfems Inc wrote:Who said it was about revenge?
It's about substantive equality. I'm not saying womyn should oppress men and make them stay home in the kitchen for the next 5,000 years, just that it's the turn of womyn to be in charge. We can then compare the two periods to see how womyn fare compared with men. I rather suspect we would be in for 5,000 years of peace and social enlightenment.
Substantive equality is effectively a euphemism for revenge. You are literally suggesting men be barred from positions of power just because they held them in the past. Would you suggest white people be enslaved as a way of achieving "substantive equality" for blacks? No of course you wouldn't: because that would be insane. Suggesting all men be barred from positions of government is equally insane.
Why is that insane?
At one point we had a society that was egalitarian in nature, when mankind was mostly hunter/gatherers. Once agriculture took root (ha - I made a funny) and systems of government began being put in play, men quickly began to dominate and oppress women. Men have already shown that they are capable of taking a seemingly egalitarian situation and turn it into sexist oppression. The only safe thing to do, to protect women, is to institute quotas of female politicians or bar men from government completely.
I'd prefer the latter, given their track record and all, but the former's ok, provided the quota was say... 80% female at minimum. This would give men a voice in government, but not be able to take over and dominate as they have done in the past.