Women need to dehumanise men and see them as objects… Objects for female pleasure.

Once upon a time there was traditional hunter-gatherer communities and male-female roles were clearly defined. Males took care of the hunting, cooking and protecting while women took care of the gathering, caring and providing.

Both sexes were involved in educating and socialising children into traditional roles. Men had strong bonds with the men they hunted with and women had strong bonds with the women they shared most of their days with.

With religion came new explanations of spirituality, social roles and responsibilities. Communities were no longer the sole teachers of children as religious institutions and eventually schools took on a greater socialisation role.

The industrial revolution and accompanying practices such as mass farming and the rise of the family unit meant instead of hunting, men began to work and earn a wage to purchase food and shelter. Men brought home money so that women could gather (shop) and provide for their man and children.

Men formed strong bonds with the men they worked with but women were beginning to feel disillusioned with the lack of companionship inside the walls of the family home. After a long hard day at work men wanted to relax while women wanted someone to talk to.  

This created conflict.

World war two saw many men leave the family home to fight for their country. Lack of males in the workforce meant women were called upon to help the nation by working in male jobs. Women began doing jobs they were told they couldn’t do prior to this because they were female.

Some women liked the culture of working so much that they felt sad that the return of men meant they must return to their home duties.

Around this time the television became a permanent fixture in many homes. What a fantastic companion for women! What a fantastic distraction for everyone who had made it through the war!

Parents, teachers and religions were no longer the main teachers of children as the media took on a greater socialisation role.

The feminist movement challenged the continuation of traditional male-female gender roles and led to men allowing women to choose whether they wanted to work and provide for themselves, or stay at home and be provided for.  

The feminist movement is similar to the environmental movement that is happening today which challenges the naturalisation of human versus all-other-species mentality. This movement will hopefully guide humans to consider their impact on other living things.

Those getting the raw end of the deal gain a voice.

So here we are today. Women are a fixture of the workforce and are even leading the country. It seems a lot has changed in a short amount of time.

Individuals have gone from relying on their communities, to relying on their families, to relying on themselves.

But it is not as simple as that.

Equality in relationships means individuals share in hunting (for knowledge), gathering, protecting, caring and providing for each other and their families and communities.

People stay together because they choose to, not because they rely on one another. Both sexes can bring home an income and both sexes can share the household duties.

Thus families either play out or challenge traditional gender roles. They socialise children into traditional gender roles or they challenge traditional gender roles through their actions. Does your family socialise children into traditional gender roles? Who does most of the housework?

Equality begins at home.

Men and women are still getting socialised into traditional gender roles by the media. In the 1970’s feminists argued the media created women is wife, mother and housekeeper for men, a sex object for men and a person trying to be beautiful for men. Today she is all these things and a worker.

What about the media created man? Ads often depict men as imbeciles incapable of cooking themselves a meal, changing a nappy or taking life seriously.

A major concern is what effect media socialisation has on children.

Women today are largely depicted as objects concerned wholeheartedly with what they look like.

Does this make men feel ripped off when they have been told their whole lives that they are entitled to a cook, cleaner and a sex slave who will forever look young, hot and won’t care about anything but turning him on, when the reality falls short of the image?

It reminds one of when people had slaves and the slaves began claiming they had rights. The slave owners had spent years believing they were above, beyond, smarter, born with the right skin colour, and therefore more deserving of the privileges afforded to them.

Did the slave owner resent the slave for voicing their rights and therefore taking away their privileges?

So how does a slave owner ever really empathise with a slave?

First option is to become a slave. By experiencing what it feels like to be a second class citizen who gets the raw end of the deal they begin to really understand the nature of their incorrect beliefs, what they have put the other through and why.

Second option is by humanising them. The trouble with the objectified women is she can never be humanised.

It reminds one of the ‘savages’ that were wiped out when white folk colonised Australia. Aboriginals couldn’t be humanised because they were likened to animals.

So does it look like we are on the verge of humanising rather than objectifying women?

Unfortunately it has gotten worse.

Nowadays plastic women are becoming the norm rather than the exception. These Barbie dolls urge young girls to stop caring about having a brain and focus on looks, fashion and turning men on. But I wonder, without a brain how are they going to pay for all that plastic surgery?

Thus the only way men are ever going to understand what it feels to be a woman in this society is to experience it.

Women need to dehumanise men and see them as objects. Objects for female pleasure. We don’t care what you think, it only matters what you look like.

Too old? No thanks. To hairy? No thanks. Got a small penis? Ever heard of plastic surgery?

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