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why do men think they're superior
In my family my dad got in an injury and can't work, so my dad does what men feel the mother should do and my mom works. We have food on the table, clothes on our back, clean water to drink, a roof over our head, we splurge every now and then, have plenty of cool stuff, and me and my siblings are completely fine and healthy children. So why do men think this? The fact is, men and women both need each other to have children and keep the population going.
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You are a very intelligent and observant young person to notice these things. Often young people are totally oblivious to the world around them, only the few things that catch their attention.
I will paraphrase something I read once in a book. It was covering the history of mankind as far as who had the control over who. The approach was to question how it is that men have their ideas of what jobs and roles are theirs and how men seem to have gotten control and rule over women.
Long long ago before there was any type of spiritual beliefs, early man took notice only of the things in his environment that were part of his life. He noticed the cycles of sun and moon, what type of clouds brought rain, different types of ground, rocky, sandy, loamy soil. And noticed that plants needed water, sun, good soil to live. When they got to the point of farming rather than being hunters and gatherers of what grew wild, they began to understand the power of Mother earth, when a seed was planted, that it brought forth a seedling, then a mature plant and finally the food to sustain them. In those times, the ones with more of the wild berries patches they claimed as theirs and more crops from farming would be able to feed his family through winter months and survive....it was all about survival back then. They also noticed that females had the same power as the earth as far as creating something with life. They may not yet have figured out how a woman became pregnant and therefore were in awe of her ability to create a living breathing human, a baby. Men were unable to do that. Having this special ability, gave males the idea that women were superior, not that they could be equals. They also in some cases feared females because of this magic, this power they wielded. They felt they were lacking in power until they figured that at least they had the strength of their muscles. And it was decided together that man would subdue women with their strength by force to control and rule them which never stopped babies from being born but made them feel a bit superior. Women began to be abused by rules, by a mans beating her if she didn't follow the rules. He told her what her role was, to cook food, clean house,in some cases create and build the house, raise kids, gather food, grow a garden, etc,,, and the only thing the man did was go hunting for meat and protect property from other groups of people who came to raid/steal from them.
Once we grew more civilized with towns and government, men could see from experience how well women could handle running a family, all those kids, and that extended to their tribe or village, she had better ideas than man could come up with, was more for avoiding war and conflict but resolving things. Males couldn't stand the fact that women could also run things better than they did. Not to say a man can't...just that he rather reacts to his testosterone than take time to carefully think and plan things out and accept counsel from women and come to a decision together that both the sexes are okay with.
Well, they feared again they would become unsuperior and used their strength to create laws and go for governing positions until women were pretty much locked out of leading governing roles other than just nurturing and raising the kids. After a few generations of male children seeing the males who lord it over the females, all they knew was to learn from example and assumed this was how it was supposed to be. Yet even so, there are still a few men sprinkled throughout the world, who instead of fearing womans ability to create life, as God created life, they actually rever her and look up to her, and at least in their hearts, worship her not like replacing God, but seeing her as one of Gods children that God gave a special ability and special traits that for the most part he did not have as a male, and knew darn well that if woman stopped giving birth not just to females but males too, then eventually the male population, not to mention all population would die out. Women hold the very existance of males in their ability to give birth. IF there was a way woman could be given power to choose the sex of her child, men may fear it entirely possible that females would no longer give birth to males, other than a few choice ones for sperm to keep the mostly female population going. I know it sounds a little far fetched but from studies done by historians, much of it they've been able to give good scientific evidence towards. In todays modern time where we have grocery stores with fresh food even in winter, we dont have to send our men out to 'bring home the bacon'....thats how the saying came about, men used to go hunting for animals to bring home the meat. Much of what we do for jobs involves nothing that directly involves a survival task. We used to have to make our own clothing from materials on the earth. Now clothes are made for us and we buy them. Since there is no survival issues, what we do is totally changes or sometimes reversed as to what the female vs the male does. It takes two very mature adults who can do this without having identity crisis or feeling one is more special than the other or fearing they have less importance now.
You are blessed to have parents who can do that.
How can things be equal again for the rest of population. Much of it depends on women, and it may take many dying to get the worlds view on woman to having equal ground with men as it should be. However, women fear retribution because of a males physical strength to beat her and force her to do something he wants. She also gives away control of her own life to a man to gain his attention and love. Pretty much selling herself short. YOung females start doing this at age 13, 14 in the dating field...prefering to stay with a terrible abusive boyfriend because they don't want to lose the status as girlfriend, their feelings of love and need and desire for that overule their clear thinking and they give their all to a guy allowing him to run her ragged, jumping to his every whim. YOung girls who dont dump such guys and demand better treatment help the imbalance of men seeing women as inferior to continue. I could go on and on.
So when a girlfriend who is being abused by her boyfriend laments to you, do your part to educate her to stand up to, demand better treatment or leave. We usually don't cus our nurturing tendencies make our heart get attached with feelings to a guy which they probably dont deserve and thats what complicates things.
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