They Believe In Equality

Mary Malone writes:
When a person says they believe that men and women are equal, you can be sure they believe women to be inferior to men. The assumption is that women were once inferior and that now that we have adopted male characteristics we are all equal. Now that we have discarded the gift economy, turned inward on ourselves and only give in exchange, now that we have traded our autonomy for a wage and the humiliation of paid work under a boss, we are supposed to be equal.
Such good people will often say that black people are equal too, all the while implying inferiority and victimhood, all the while believing that African achievements are few and European achievements are many.
Men and women are, of course, equal but different, sometimes at each other's throats, but for the most part complementary.
In the past, particularly in Christian and Jewish societies, it was tacitly agreed that women are more important than men. These quasi matriarchal societies put women in the lifeboats first because they knew who really counted - the women.
Men could die by the score, yet so long as one or two men were left the tribe would not die out. But every womb counted, and even the older women had their uses and their knowledge.
Relatively speaking, men had little to offer, particularly as their strength diminished.
But in order to gain total power the Patriarchy has to destroy the notion of Woman.
It implies, in every lie that comes from its bullying mouth, that a woman's life is inferior to that of a man.
Only by constantly pounding on with this message that woman is at best a second rate man  - though equal of course - can they convince people to hate themselves.
The last fifty years has seen an all out onslaught on Woman. Her very existence as more than a worker drone with a pussy is under threat.
Be sure, when they tell you how much they love equality, how we much they love George and not Anne, you know they hate Woman.