Post 39: Feminism and Equality

I'd like to start off by saying that I don't think people should be treated differently because of their gender, race, sexuality, religion, age, or income.

I do think that not everyone should be treated equally. I think they should be treated based on their actions, behaviour, and personality. If someone is rude and always treating people like dirt, I don't think they deserve to be treated with the same compassion as someone who is always kind and thinking of others first.

I don't mean to say that these rude people should be treated badly, what I am saying is that I will be less inclined to go out of my way to help them and it is understandable, to me, if others would be too.

This post I want to talk a little bit about the feminism that can be seen online. A lot of times, people who claim that they are looking for equality, aren't. Or, perhaps, they don't even realize that they aren't treating people equally.

Recently, on Facebook one of the people on my friends' list was complaining about how she dropped out of University and how her room mate was threatening to kick her out. He had told her that he would do it if she wasn't enrolled in University. So, it isn't like it came out of no where.

Anyway, the discussion in the comments was all about he was a horrible person for doing that and how dare he kick a girl out on the streets like that? There was a lot of emphasis on the "to a girl". She is over 20. She isn't a child. Someone younger than her not only was kicked out of her house, but moved across the country by herself.

She is perfectly capable of getting a job, or enrolling in classes at a different school. But everyone is acting like because she is a girl, she should be treated like she is incapable. And it was girls who were talking about this!

It comes up in times when women insist men open doors for them, women go first, and things like that. It is like they are saying yes, we want equality. But we also want all the perks that come with you thinking that we are weaker or more fragile, but without you actually thinking of us that way.

Equality isn't like that. It is entirely possible for a woman to open the door for a man. Why can't we just open the door when there are other people coming? Why does there gender matter?