The Alleged Inferiority of Women Man has frequently justified | Human Nature
The Alleged Inferiority of Women
Man has frequently justified his dominance not only by claiming that it is a natural position, but also by claiming that his dominance results inevitably from woman's inferiority. This view of women's inferiority is so widespread that it affects people of all races. This prejudice is linked to a certain uneasiness on the part of men, which may have originated during the war against matriarchy, when female power was a source of genuine concern. Meanwhile, women's mental development follows the same set of rules as men who have a strong sense of inferiority due to their position in life.
When we look into the girls' situation more closely, we discover that the story of women's inferior abilities is a blatant lie. Girls are constantly subjected to the argument that they are less capable than boys and can only perform trivial tasks. It is not surprising, then, that they eventually come to believe that women have an unalterable fate and believe in their own inferiority. Discouraged in this way, a girl will approach 'masculine' occupations with a closed mind, if she ever gets the chance to approach them at all. She first assumes she will not be sufficiently interested in them. And if she does become interested, she quickly loses heart due to a lack of encouragement and support.
If girls see again and again how women are assigned to servile roles; being robbed of their belief in their own value, shatter their self-confidence and destroy their hope of ever doing anything worthwhile, it is not difficult to understand how they lose courage, fail to face their obligations and shrink from tackling life’s problems. After all that, no wonder girls can appear useless and incapable!
One of the bitter consequences of women's inferiority prejudice is the clear division and pigeonholing of concepts:'masculine' denotes worthwhile, powerful, victorious, capable, whereas 'feminine' denotes obedient, servile, subordinate. This way of thinking has become so deeply embedded in human thought processes that in our society, everything laudable is labeled'masculine,' while everything less valuable or actually derogatory is labeled 'feminine.' We all know men who would be deeply offended if we told them they had feminine qualities, whereas telling a woman she has masculine qualities is not an insult. The emphasis is always such that everything female appears to be inferior.
Character traits that are alleged to prove the fallacious contention of woman’s inferiority reveal themselves on closer observation to be nothing more than the manifestations of inhibited psychological development. We do not claim to be able to make all children into what are called ‘talented’ individuals, but we can always make ‘untalented’ adults out of them. That such a fate overtakes girls more frequently than boys, in our day and age, can easily be recognized. Moreover, we have often seen these apparently ‘untalented’ children suddenly become so talented that it seemed nothing short of a miracle!
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