"Personally, I do not believe in feminism because I think it’s wrong to seek equality, i.e., blindness to sex in all matters of law and social standards."
Blindness to sex differences in matters of law and society is a great definition of Feminism, well done
This is also why I’ll never be persuaded by the idea that men and women should have identical authority over abortion. If women are the ones who bear the pregnancy, the childbirth, the physical risk, the career interruption, and the long tail of it in the body, then no, I don’t think pretending the stakes are symmetrical is realism.
Abortion is objectively wrong. It certainly affects men and women differently, but every human has the authority to declare it to be wrong. I don’t have to be a child’s mother in order to declare it wrong to murder that child.
That’s a different argument, though. My point was not that only women are allowed to have moral opinions on abortion. Obviously anyone can have an opinion. My point is that men and women don’t stand in identical relation to pregnancy, childbirth, and the bodily consequences of either continuing or ending one.
It’s not identical, but I would say it is equally as grave. By this I mean the responsibility placed on the man is just as significant as that placed on the woman. In what way do you mean, though?
I mean in the literal, embodied sense. The woman is the one whose body takes on the pregnancy, the medical risk, the childbirth, the recovery, and the long tail of physical consequences afterward. And in actual practice, she is also far more likely to be treated as the primary caregiver once the child exists.
Men can be morally implicated, relationally implicated, financially implicated, even deeply emotionally affected. But that’s still not the same as the burden being equally significant.
"Personally, I do not believe in feminism because I think it’s wrong to seek equality, i.e., blindness to sex in all matters of law and social standards."
Blindness to sex differences in matters of law and society is a great definition of Feminism, well done
Thank you so much!
I agree with this 100%! Beautifully said and wrapped up.
Thank you so much!!
This is also why I’ll never be persuaded by the idea that men and women should have identical authority over abortion. If women are the ones who bear the pregnancy, the childbirth, the physical risk, the career interruption, and the long tail of it in the body, then no, I don’t think pretending the stakes are symmetrical is realism.
Abortion is objectively wrong. It certainly affects men and women differently, but every human has the authority to declare it to be wrong. I don’t have to be a child’s mother in order to declare it wrong to murder that child.
That’s a different argument, though. My point was not that only women are allowed to have moral opinions on abortion. Obviously anyone can have an opinion. My point is that men and women don’t stand in identical relation to pregnancy, childbirth, and the bodily consequences of either continuing or ending one.
It’s not identical, but I would say it is equally as grave. By this I mean the responsibility placed on the man is just as significant as that placed on the woman. In what way do you mean, though?
I mean in the literal, embodied sense. The woman is the one whose body takes on the pregnancy, the medical risk, the childbirth, the recovery, and the long tail of physical consequences afterward. And in actual practice, she is also far more likely to be treated as the primary caregiver once the child exists.
Men can be morally implicated, relationally implicated, financially implicated, even deeply emotionally affected. But that’s still not the same as the burden being equally significant.