Empowering women has been said to be the “silver bullet” to ending poverty.
Studies have shown that an increase in the income of women directly correlates with increases in the education and nutrition of children. These children will lead longer and more fulfilling lives, and an upward spiral will begin as they can provide better education and nutrition to their children.
Increases in the income of men have no correlation with children’s education and nutrition, but instead correlate with increases in spending on drugs and alcohol. This is a very sad picture to paint… and I wonder why this is the case?
I suppose the unchangeable fact that men can’t physically give birth could have something to do with it however I do not think this means that fathers are innately less caring about their children than mothers. A child is half the father and half the mother so it makes sense that both have a innate biologically desire for their genes to live on. This is what all life forms, from plants to insects to animals to birds want to do: survive. This is the essence of evolution. This is the essence of life.
It makes me consider what kind of societal conditioning may induce the destructive gender issues around our world today.
I once asked a male friend of mine why men get into fights. He told me it comes down to sexual frustration. That silenced me. What can solve this? Only women. And the more empowered women are the more expectations they have of the man they want to be with… I just hope this does not lead to more sexual frustration and more problems than there were to begin with.
Urgh! It’s so hard. Everything has a ripple effect. The best of intentions can lead to the most disastrous consequences.
Does this mean we should not bother empowering women?
Of course not. Empowering women to earn an income, to make their own choices and have an opinion that counts is extremely important. So too is empowering women to be involved in the top-end leadership of our world. But that’s not everything.
Men must be empowered too, but maybe in a different way to the way our society does today. Pressures on men to compete, to “provide for their families”, pressures to prove their masculinity, and to win the woman that will pass on their genes – these factors are evident in the animal world too. But humanity has developed the unique cabability of FORESIGHT. We can analyse our societal pressures and values, and adjust them in whatever way will allow our society to evolve into a better one.
I don’t really know what point I’m trying to make. I have never felt my femininity hold be back from anything… so all of this is a bit foreign to me. I guess as I learn about gender issues for the first time these issues are playing on my mind. You are reading the babble as my mind tries to make sense of it all.
There is one thing I know beyond doubt and that is that both the male and the female genders have intrinsic, inseparable and invaluable roles to play in life. I suppose it’s just now time to contemplate these roles and how we can structure society in a way that fosters both genders to maximize their potential and provide the most benefit for life on earth as a whole.
Unfortunately I’m sure that is much easier said than done…
I think your friend idea that men fight because of sexual frustration is true but simplistic… sexual selection most certainly effects men’s behaviour… as women change their expectation’s change but this also changes men’s behaviour but this too simple as well because it can give the impression that women are responsible for men’s behaviour… I will take time later to give you a fuller more rounded and thought response soon but gotta run now nice blog… when we are we gonna have that cuppa???
Men fight because they have a ‘power’ issue problem. Why in all religions is the power to men? Even in Budhism..a nun is second rate citizen.
I believe religions are created to give men a sense of power.
Men know they never can equal the inherited power of women the absolute form of recreation – growing a real human being inside of them. AND they never will. Only when they realize so – there will be peace. Yes we should empower women but more ..men should start empowering themselves.
its all about Testosterone and a couple of other hormones.
Do not forget that women get in fights as well. They kill rape deal drugs, and our prisons are full of them as they become more masculanised. This is a result of them not achieving their main goal, but rather being greed-orientated, certainly in the West.
Perhaps you are thinking of some ideal in your head, perhaps it is just the feminist idea that you can’t think of a woman doing wrong, and that all bad must be men.
Men are primarily still in charge and should be, as this is ordained and is easily seen in natural events. Men certainly fall short in understanding of their role in the working class, and, as such, this permeates through to women and society in general.
Once we lose what is important, whether it be men or women, we will not understand our roles. Our roles primarily now are so lost as no one knows what it is they should be doing- hence there is more sin in the land.
The role of the woman is important, they just seem to have forgotten what it is, Bringing up the Human Race!
Rob.
“Men are primarily still in charge and should be, as this is ordained” – ah, hm, seriously??? Ok, I know you were indoctrinated, but come on…
Women, if they don’t take on the traits of men, would rule the world in a far more mothering and loving way then it is today. That is “ordained.”
PS do you know anything about feminism?
“Men are primarily still in charge and should be, as this is ordained” – ah, hm, seriously??? Ok, I know you were indoctrinated, but come on…
—Firstly you do not “Know” that I was indoctrinated, and, for your information, I was not.
I love people who say, “Come one”, as if “that” said in such a positive way actually means something. Bluntly, you give no argument there at all. History backs up what I say. It appears you wish to ignore it—presumably for your own ends, and presumably for gain.
Women, if they don’t take on the traits of men, would rule the world in a far more mothering and loving way then it is today. That is “ordained.”
—This is ambiguous. Women will only rule if, and only if, men allow them to, and only if they think it is easier that fighting them, more than likely, and as normally, to protect their weaker minds.
PS do you know anything about feminism?
—I know sufficient to know that they fully admit themselves that they went out to destroy the family! This is mind-boggling when I stop to think of it, I mean, a woman, destroying what most people think that women are all about. But the power of men was within the family was it not—so destroy that, and you destroy the power of the man. After all, the world is understood fairly well now and most of the dirty fighting is over. So now you women decide you would like a slice of the cake, without so much as a thank you, like some spoilt teenager. Your article said:
Empowering women has been said to be the “silver bullet” to ending poverty.
—We might also say that educating men would end poverty—but I suppose you have your agenda, and that now is power.
Studies have shown that an increase in the income of women directly correlates with increases in the education and nutrition of children. These children will lead longer and more fulfilling lives, and an upward spiral will begin as they can provide better education and nutrition to their children.
—”Their” children presumably being women’s and not men’s, right?
Increases in the income of men have no correlation with children’s education and nutrition, but instead correlate with increases in spending on drugs and alcohol. This is a very sad picture to paint… and I wonder why this is the case?
—It is a lack of Christ in their lives. Education does help though, and it is far more important to tackle the problem with men as they tend to be more physical than women, and then women would follow suit. But you use this problem, “not” to help men, but to help women. Therein is your agenda again.
I suppose the unchangeable fact that men can’t physically give birth could have something to do with it however I do not think this means that fathers are innately less caring about their children than mothers. A child is half the father and half the mother so it makes sense that both have a innate biologically desire for their genes to live on. This is what all life forms, from plants to insects to animals to birds want to do: survive. This is the essence of evolution. This is the essence of life.
—This is the nature of God and is why it is so. All things are fractal in origin.
I once asked a male friend of mine why men get into fights. He told me it comes down to sexual frustration. That silenced me. What can solve this? Only women. And the more empowered women are the more expectations they have of the man they want to be with… I just hope this does not lead to more sexual frustration and more problems than there were to begin with.
—I suggest you get a different friend, or take him off his medication, or find him a girlfriend. (I think it would silence me also.) Your jump though, to think that only “Wonder Woman” can solve this problem, is laughable, if it were not for the fact that you mean it. The more men know of who they are, and the Higher-Consciousness that we come from, the more they will follow that, and therefore, the more they will follow what is right.
Urgh! It’s so hard. Everything has a ripple effect. The best of intentions can lead to the most disastrous consequences.
Does this mean we should not bother empowering women?
Of course not. Empowering women to earn an income, to make their own choices and have an opinion that counts is extremely important. So too is empowering women to be involved in the top-end leadership of our world. But that’s not everything.
—Empowering women, as you call it, which means people trying to steer the same ship (which does not work) means that they shall be fighting over the same job. There will then be a lack of jobs, a lack of opportunity. This reason is connected with the recent riots in London (even if it was not the spark)
Men must be empowered too, but maybe in a different way to the way our society does today. Pressures on men to compete, to “provide for their families”, pressures to prove their masculinity, and to win the woman that will pass on their genes – these factors are evident in the animal world too. But humanity has developed the unique cabability of FORESIGHT. We can analyse our societal pressures and values, and adjust them in whatever way will allow our society to evolve into a better one.
—In other words, change what is naturally there! And guess what will happen when you try to do that. For everyone, it won’t work. You take things from what is natural, what is ordained. Presumably by your comments, you are an atheist, you sound it.
I don’t really know what point I’m trying to make.
—Neither do I.
I have never felt my femininity hold be back from anything… so all of this is a bit foreign to me. I guess as I learn about gender issues for the first time these issues are playing on my mind. You are reading the babble as my mind tries to make sense of it all.
There is one thing I know beyond doubt and that is that both the male and the female genders have intrinsic, inseparable and invaluable roles to play in life. I suppose it’s just now time to contemplate these roles and how we can structure society in a way that fosters both genders to maximize their potential and provide the most benefit for life on earth as a whole.
Unfortunately I’m sure that is much easier said than done…
—As you said so eloquently yourself, we have “roles” to play. But it seems, those roles must now be reversed so that you can feed you “Greed-orientated” lifestyles. In doing this there is a lack of jobs, and a lack of nurturing of our offspring—and this because of greed. Do you really think that being a family-wrecking baby-killing human being, that the world is a better place, I mean, seriously?
You have little thanks for men, and you make the world far more adulterous, which, if you are atheist, I guess you care little about. But we shall answer for it, in many ways.
Your main argument seems to be that, now that men have made everything easy enough for a woman to use, we should step aside and let you take whatever you want, and that somehow is ok. If we don’t like it, we should change, rather than change men to be better as they are, no, no, lets move them away altogether. I’m afraid your greed has got the better of you. I could go on, but as this may not be posted, I shall await your reply instead. Yours sincerely—
Aw… bless you Rob.