Why do women want "equality"?

Question

If I were a woman, I'd be so mad at other women that demand that we have to do an equal share of the work.

Answer 1

I am male but I kind of sympathize with the concept of equality. As I don't like being told what to do.

So the price is working and fending for myself. Big Deal!. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I am dominant, so submitting to someone else is like h**l to me. It doesn't mater if I would be economically better or work less. Yet I try to be fair and put myself into other peoples shoes.

If I do not believe that I should be forced to live a way of live in which I wouldn't be happy, why should I want to force someone to live in a way that they won't be happy?

I believe in equality, but not the Orwellian one.

Answer 2

with rights comes work...part of life.

but ya there are a few women whining about it.

Answer 3

Men and women having been sharing responsibilities long before feminism came around.  Some cultures would definitely consider what we call a "gender division" of labor to be sharing the work equally.

One person can't do it all.

Answer 4

Because, unlike the female version of you, we enjoy taking responsibility for ourselves.

Answer 5

I agree with you whole heartily. Why would a woman want the stress and demands that come from being the bread winner. Men, in the past, went to work, busted their a$$es, left their families all day, and had a shorter life expectancy. And some woman somewhere said, "OOohh that looks good, I think I'll have me some of that!!" Why would a woman want to leave her children all day with some low payed flunky to watch her kids and go to the work force where shes probably not gonna make as much money anyway?? Sounds awesome... thanks feminists!!

Answer 6

Same reason because they wanted to be good christians and wifes back in the day, because it has been preached to them, thesedays though the tv does most of the preaching.

Answer 7

if women did an equal share of life's work, they would have a lot more free time.

Answer 8

Yeah?

Answer 9

They don't want equal work. They want equal opportunity, but not equal responsibility.

Answer 10

Because women haven't always had to do an equal share of the work?

Oh right, I forgot. Taking care of the house and raising kids isn't "working"..

The only thing that's changed is our options.

Edit: Hey April, remember in that question earlier when I said you'd get less hate mail if you quit with the insults? That is exactly the kind of c**p I was talking about.

Answer 11

I've always liked what Agatha Christie had to say about the subject in her autobiography:

'The position of women over the years has definitely changed for the worse. We women have behaved like mugs.  We have clamoured to be allowed to work like men.  men, not being fools, have taken kindly to the idea.  Why support a wife? What's wrong with a wife supporting herself?  She wants to do it.  By golly, she can go on doing it!

It seems sad that having established ourselves so cleverly as the "weaker s*x" we should now be broadly on a par with the women of primitive tribes who toil in the fields all day, walk miles to gather camelthorn for fuel, and on trek carry all the pots, pans, and household equipment on their heads, whilst the gorgeous, unencumbered male sweeps on ahead, unburdened save for one lethal weapon with which to defend his women.'

It's amazing how many women there are on the 'Marriage and Divorce' section on this site who seem to fit that description exactly!

Answer 12

Men are rewarded for the work they do, as they produce goods, whereas women's work in the domestic sphere,(cleaner, cook,etc) is just as physically demanding but goes largely unnoticed, as well as unrewarded.Hence equal pay for equal work.

Answer 13

I want it because I can't stand how men think we are weak and insignificant. I like to prove that women our just as independent, if not more, as men. Because the truth is, we are.

Answer 14

That's because you are not a woman.