Observations on New Roles of Women (2016) Rysunek autorstwa Edwin Loftus

As a male, some might suggest that I am not qualified to comment on the new roles for women in the present and future. I have never had a menstrual cycle, given birth, experienced increased estrogen flows, had to live with the potential rape and murder just because I'm a female, never had to live with being smaller and weaker than half of the population, and never told that what I am disqualifies me for positions of leadership or to be an artist.
On the other hand, ... just as no tree can look objectively at the forest, no woman can look objectively at womankind, the likelihood that personal experience will distort their point of view is just too high.
The Feminist Movement has been, because of this set of limitations, both a bane and a boon to the evolving status of women in general. Women who chaffed under male domination formed it to the neglect of the experience of other women and this harmed many women's lives, notwithstanding how right parts of the Feminist dogmas were. It is possible to be both right and wrong at the same time when the subject has the kind of complexity that effects virtually everyone.
This image is dominated by four figures; one angry, one pushing back, one slipping off in a different direction, and one larger than the others that appears aware, but inactive. Broad generalizations are aways wrong, even when they are "generally true". Subjects as broad and complex as this can never be addressed in specific terms except with statements like, "All women are different from all other women."
So, why would I, a male, even attempt to address such a subject?
I was raised by a single mother who chaffed under the rule of men far less intelligent and capable than she was. As a child in the 1950s, I saw how unfair her situation was and I grew up with an awareness of some part of this injustice, however abstract and external that might have been. That doesn't make me knowledgeable, but it left me sympathetically concerned.
That being said, this is my view of the status of women's equality efforts today. My concern is that; it is not what we think reality ought to be that will shape the future. Reality will be shaped by what is realistic at any given moment. Sometimes, we will, as individuals, be happy or unhappy with what that is.

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