History of Feminism

And it would be easy to ignore the fastball thing if the glorification of masculinity and male ideals weren't the staus quo outside of the game, too. The best paying jobs are the ones that rely on "ideally male" qualities, like being able to do well in science and math. STEM jobs. In school we were learning an awfully lot about male philosophers and their great contributions to society. We also learned that they believed women were so inferior. Most of the books we read were written by men, about men. When we read books by women, there were always someone complaining that he didn't want to, because seeing it from a woman's POV was so boring. No one ever complained that intensely about the men's books, (and some of classics were a pain to read).

And then there's all the jokes about women's interests as "frivolous". There's so many put-downs and they're so normalized that it just tires you out enough that you don't even want to fight them anymore. So in a way, constantly saying that one sex is the better one sends the message that the other one is inferior. The same thing happens with racism. If a person puts up a sign that says "whites only" and say that it's just because whites are naturally better because XYZ, then that does make everyone else feel worse about themselves. It creates a hierarchy of power.

Cooperation will forever be my choice if I can pick between competition and cooperation. I don't want to 'win', as much as I'd like to be able to reach a fair compromise. We have to be able to cooperate if we're going to be able to get our government back to doing its job FOR the people instead AGAINST the people, after all.