Throughout these years I constantly making experiment about how our society perceive about the societal changes. The overhaul of sexist strata and the privilege reformations follow. Note that every change could be perceived as progress or detrimental to the society.
The foremost subject that I run is about the opposite of manliness perceived by the oldies vs modern women. The modern era allow women go out from the kitchen into the office. They can have career and enjoy the privilege that men were exclusively had in years.
And, can men also do the reverse? Can men also enjoy the privilege of what women do in the past? Can men move from office into the kitchen?
And the answer on this era is: NO.
While women could reverse their role, men are not allowed to do the same in this society. Society will punish you when a man tries to do that. They will put a healthy man who chose to be at home dad as an irresponsible not-a-man person.
If a woman's worth could be rewritten, why not the other way around?
Again, this is a sign of how modern society can so easily be rewritten by monetary purpose. It is not a bad thing. But, that also indicates that people only see money as benchmark for survival.
Women are allowed to work so that this society could progress and sustain. They are allowed to make a living for themselves and for the help to their respective families.
So, yeah, all in all, the society at this time is not on a time where chivalry would be questioned. Because, interestingly, feminism would barks at a guy who gives his seat to a healthy woman. That's a sign of weakness.
Giving a seat is a statement of men are above women. Reality speaks otherwise, women still enjoy that primordial spirit of men are above women. And when will this thinking would be shifted towards feminism?
I hope feminism doesn't reach Indonesia in my active lifetime. It would be a hassle for me to hurdle thoughts of which have been planted throughout my childhood. I wish when the time comes, they would go easy on men that still live in chivalry.
The foremost subject that I run is about the opposite of manliness perceived by the oldies vs modern women. The modern era allow women go out from the kitchen into the office. They can have career and enjoy the privilege that men were exclusively had in years.
And, can men also do the reverse? Can men also enjoy the privilege of what women do in the past? Can men move from office into the kitchen?
And the answer on this era is: NO.
While women could reverse their role, men are not allowed to do the same in this society. Society will punish you when a man tries to do that. They will put a healthy man who chose to be at home dad as an irresponsible not-a-man person.
If a woman's worth could be rewritten, why not the other way around?
Again, this is a sign of how modern society can so easily be rewritten by monetary purpose. It is not a bad thing. But, that also indicates that people only see money as benchmark for survival.
Women are allowed to work so that this society could progress and sustain. They are allowed to make a living for themselves and for the help to their respective families.
So, yeah, all in all, the society at this time is not on a time where chivalry would be questioned. Because, interestingly, feminism would barks at a guy who gives his seat to a healthy woman. That's a sign of weakness.
Giving a seat is a statement of men are above women. Reality speaks otherwise, women still enjoy that primordial spirit of men are above women. And when will this thinking would be shifted towards feminism?
I hope feminism doesn't reach Indonesia in my active lifetime. It would be a hassle for me to hurdle thoughts of which have been planted throughout my childhood. I wish when the time comes, they would go easy on men that still live in chivalry.
> If a woman's worth could be rewritten, why not the other way around?
ReplyDeleteThis article has the answer for that.
> [redacted] men are above women.
A woman's worth can be re-written because majority thinks it's a level-up. Meanwhile, society thinks men who somehow do/behave like women by their standard (feminine, be a nurse, non-macho/sensitive, and other traits/jobs/behaviours that are commonly associated with women) are degrading themselves.
Gender roles were assigned when we still have high mortality rate and not enough medicine knowledge. To reduce that, we protect our women to protect our offsprings. Since the advancement of medicine, women dont actually need that much 'protection'.
> ..feminism would barks at a guy who gives his seat to a healthy woman.
Where did you read that? Did a man write it? That's not feminism. If I want to guess, maybe some women think that move is not entirely sincere (gw pernah koq liat cowo yg suddenly jd the nicest guy on the planet pas ada cewe cantik yg masuk ke kendaraan umum). Lets switch the role, what would a man feel if a woman thinks he needs to be babysit? Would that man prefer to be treated as an equal, not a lesser being?
> Reality speaks otherwise, women still enjoy that primordial spirit of men are above women
Source? This sounds too generalizing to me. People want different things.
It seems we have a different understanding of feminism. It does NOT relate to chivalry thing at all.
>> If a woman's worth could be rewritten, why not the other way around?
Delete>This article has the answer for that.
True. This article tries to explain what.
> Where did you read that? Did a man write it? That's not feminism.
That's, indeed, a hardcore feminist. That's why I told you in the article, it isn't here yet.
>> Reality speaks otherwise, women still enjoy that primordial spirit of men are above women
> Source? This sounds too generalizing to me. People want different things.
Indeed, but that's the Indonesian culture that I perceived. Sorry if this article is not sugarcoating it enough. But, this article tried to be objective by trying not to say whether it's a bad nor good thing.