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Most Women Really Don't Want Equality
Most women who say they desire equality only really want it selectively, if at all. For instance, many successful women still try to marry well with the intention and expectation of being taken care of, and having their needs met by their repective men. No, they don't really want equality. Most women just want to feel like as though can have equality when they want it.
 Juggernaut  12 Jun 2009 15:40
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I agree. Many women I know talk a good talk but don't want to walk the walk. They don't want equality at all. However I think they want the balance in their favor and currently it is, they just dont' see it! Women and men have always worked and contributed to life. Did they always do the same things? NO. That doesn't mean they weren't equal. It means that they were doing things in a way that was most benificial to the survival of them and their family.
I agree that if men and women are at the same job doing the same thing it is only fair to pay them the same wage. However these days there is a lot more funding and grants for women to attend college.
So my sons are at a disadvantage applying for scholarships and grantsfor college since they do not have access to this funding. When they finish school, they will have higher loans and also be paying higher car insurance in their early twenties. I wouldn't call that equal.
No many women don't want equality. They may say that. But when it comes to selecting a partner, most expect the partner to make the same or more money than they do. The ones that make much more money than a partner often look down on them and resent them for not being able to match them, however they like being in that position of power finacially and don't see they wouldn't like to be treated the way they treat their spouse either.
People talk it, but their actions don't show it.
 
 Golfelda  15 Jun 2009 13:13
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Are you kidding? I've been trying for years to talk my wife into getting rich so she can support me. Anyway while there are certainly some women (and men), who would like such an arrangement, that is hardly an accurate characterization of most women.
 
 finsch  15 Jun 2009 07:36
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Lol I am successful and I will be d@mned when the day comes that I want a MAN to take care of me. The only person who can truly take care of me is ME. Some women DO want to be taken care of, but not all of us thank you very much. Please don't generalize. The moment anyone depends on someone else for their security or happiness is the moment they make themselves very vulnerable. No thank you. Someday the "playing field" will be even.. Maybe when people stop GENERALIZING.
 
 hodver  15 Jun 2009 05:05
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R U kidding? They always wanna take it too far.
 
 webman1200  12 Jun 2009 20:53
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It kind of seems that way, but don't men do that too? They want every oppurtunity as the next guy, but when they come home they want their wives to pamper them. All anyone wants is the pursuit of happiness. Of course, there are people like extreme female activists who gripe all the time, and frankly, they're just plain annoying.
 
 bookworm3  12 Jun 2009 19:32
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It's funny that your other post is the claim men looking at photos of other women equals cheating (clearly an anti-male post) and now you flip to women not really wanting equality (clearly an anti-female post). Whose side are you on, anyone's? Combined it seems to me your take on life is we all should be living pre-WWII style with Leave it to Beaver families in which the women are happily subservient to men and the men are as pure as Ward Cleaver. What a joke. Even back in those good old days there were plenty of couples who broke the norms, and much of the good behavior was a facade - the husband/father keeping home as sterile as church but then going out to score hookers or male prostitutes.

Anyway, for this debate post I disagree with "most" as well as "don't want equality". There is no quantifiable evidence presented of "most", nor are the behaviors you mentioned consistent in every town, nation, race, or age range. And exhibiting behaviors contrary to equality is not the same as not wanting equality. You can want to quite smoking but fail to do it, but that doesn't mean you never really wanted to quit.

Finally, I'll add that what women really want is a fair opportunity at self fulfillment (whether it be at a job or in the home or whatever). Wanting an opportunity is not the same as 100% down the middle equal division of every aspect of life.
 
 Grenache  12 Jun 2009 16:47
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 You really had me on the floor with this one Grenache. Though, I'll give you this. You always attempt to offer a clean and logical analysis, even when I am playing both sides of an issue FIrst, I am on no one's side and on everyone's side, depending on the circumstances. I'm not a hater. To the contrary, I am a lover. Love, baby. OMG - pre WWII style, and Leave It To Beaver? This is too rich. LMAO. Of course, I am not speaking in absolute terms, though I may have led you to think so. Actually, you couldn't be more wrong on this one, though. I am all for women, and everyone else, attaining the human rights they should always have had, if not for the intervention of insecure manfolk throughout history. Personally, it shames me to know that my brothers, even in this age of contemporary human rights awareness, continue to legitimize the need for human rights concern. Oppression is NOT good or cool. Unfortunately, it seems this opinion may not reach consensus unless or until the tables are turned and the oppressor becomes the oppressed. What a world. Good distinction though, between equality and fair opportunity.
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 12 Jun 2009 17:29
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