Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The Call of Duty

There is a large misconception with the people of America that the male is supposed to pay for everything. I am going to use an oddly twisted history to prove that this is not the case.

Back in the day prior to World War I women were completely reliant on their husbands. They did not have any money or education so their only chance of surivival was on this. An odd proof would be Mormonism and how their doctrines made back in the 1800s had the woman completely reliant on the male. Biblical times had the male as the provider and women as the home maker.

With this ideology it seems fit that the man pays for everything. Given my age everything encompasses dates and so forth and not so much as bills. The thinking with this mentality would be that it is just establishing the relationship as a dependance from female to male.

That is all fine and good until women get the vote after World War 1. Now they have the same amount of political sway as the male. Then they get the same jobs as males in World War 2. That is due to the war leaving jobs availible but after the war women continued to be a heavy presence in the work place. Then came women joining the military. That is my odd history to prove that women gradually got equality to the male.

Culuturally we shall look at it differently. 1800s you could beat your wife. 1920 you can not longer beat your wife but you can beat your kids. 1970 you cannot beat your kids. Kids grow up thinking beating is repulsive (which it is) so they do not inflict anything upon their kids or wives and thus make them more equal. That is a stretch argument though with little to support it and difficult to put into typed words.

So females want equality and that is fine. In that equality though they need to share everything equal. You cannot get every good side of the world and not accept any of the negative things. Females can join the military but cannot go to war. Females can have the same jobs as males but are not as prone to being fired since they can sue their employer for being sexist.

You cannot have every good thing in the world and not take any of the bad parts and assume it will all work out.

My point is this. Guys should not pay for everything and every date. If you want to be treated like an equal and not an inferior person than you should start paying for more and carrying your own weight. As it is with the common american girl, you have to pay for everything and do everything and feed them with currency and compliments just to keep their finger off the trigger.

If you want to be treated like an equal then balance this equation.

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