Another post spurned by that chick.

I hope this one gets me into less trouble than the previous one.

I will keep it extremely brief.

Gender-neutrality: Who believes that a gender-neutral society is best? Should men and women behave exactly the same, or should it be a more subjective issue than that? After all, there should typically be someone who takes on the nurturing role and someone who takes on the providing role. I am not saying that either one must be shackled to a penis or a vagina. I am just saying that if gender-neutral means that we behave exactly the same, will that not fragment our focus? Someone has to raise the children right? Whether it is a stay at home mom or dad is irrelevant. Someone has to be a nurturer at some point.

So why do we look at it as a bad thing to be a nurturer? In my fifth year of high school (which I remind you was voluntary and deeply regretted :P), we discussed an issue like this in my literature studies class (for some reason). All of the young women in the classroom were arguing that they did not want to be a stay-at-home parent. Ever. They wanted to be the independent career woman who asserts herself in the board room and shows that she has the cojones to tussle with the big boys.

Then I made a huge mistake. In a classroom where the girl to guy ratio was 10:1, I pointed out that this focus from both genders that they had to be the biggest and best in the corporate world was really degrading the position of parenthood. No one wants to raise children. There is no glory in that. You have to have a six-figure income to be somebody. Boy did I get shrieked at. Our generation will surely make an interesting breed of parents.

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Another post I want to make is about this concept of fighting racism by being “colour-blind”. But that will be for another day. Feel free to comment on it anyway though.

Hopefully this post can exist for at least a full day without making me into a pariah again.