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Do Women Enjoy Being the Weaker Sex?
More than just physically?
Yesterday I asked Ian, my husband, how he’d feel if we were traveling somewhere and I offered to put his carry-on into an airplane’s overhead bin for him. Would he let me do it?
No, he said, he would not.
I asked why.
“Because I can do it myself,” he said. “Why would I want you to do it? It makes no sense.”
He didn’t say this because he’s a man and I’m a woman. Which is to say he wouldn’t feel “emasculated” if a woman helped him with something. It’s just that he doesn’t understand why he’d ask me, or anyone else, to do something for him that he’s capable of doing, himself. If his bag were too heavy for him to lift, he’d simply take out the heavy stuff before heading to the airport. Why pack a bag he can’t carry?
Good question.
I watch a reality TV show called Summer House that, with one little dinner party scene, made me see how responsible we women are for own lack of forward progress and the situation we find ourselves in today.
Where we are:
- our right to make our own healthcare decisions (such as whether to terminate a pregnancy, for example) is easily taken out of our hands
- we’re still having to try to…
