There was a news article that filled me with admiration and delight earlier this year about a 65 year old woman who successfully saved her 70 year old husband’s life from an attacking cougar. She bashed the animal over the head repeatedly with a log and even took a pen from her husband’s person and jammed it into the animal’s eye socket. Then she continued to bash with the log and scream until the animal finally let go of her husband’s head and went away. The bravery and fierceness of her action was an inspiration to me. That’s my kind of woman. Throughout human civilization it has historically been the duty of a man to protect women and it remains so to this day. Very few feminists have shown initiative in adopting any of the obligations of male citizens that involve personal risk or which are generally disagreeable. Among those duties is military service. Every young man is compelled by United States law to sign up for selective service, an act that puts their life on the line to protect their country should they be called upon. Women now stand equal to men under the law, yet face no similar obligation.
Feminist groups are inclined to insist that injustices wrought by their imaginary ‘patriarchy’ continue but in turn act with little to no sense of justice. They do nothing against and have even supported an existing system in which women get drastically less severe prison sentences than men, get preferential treatment in divorce courts, and are able to send men to prison based on word alone in cases of sexual misconduct. In the schools, new disorder labels are appearing seemingly every year and the group to which they are applied is overwhelmingly male. In the workforce, jobs that involve personal danger are almost unanimously filled by men. Perhaps most importantly, if there is a war that requires more than the nation’s volunteer force, men too young to have an alcoholic drink will be drafted and sent out to die in combat. Women will be able to stay safely at home if they like.
The case of the woman against the cougar brings me feelings of optimism that the system must eventually change and a new equality be reached. So too do the women fighting in Iraq even though their country is divided over whether they even belong in the line of fire. As the cause of feminism becomes ever more reactionary and isolated, women are showing that they are able and willing to stand alongside men as partners and equals under a system based on fairness and shared duties as citizens. However, there is not yet any major organized female movement to help bridge the gap. It seems, unfortunately, that men will be largely responsible for taking the final steps to true equality.
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