[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Wallace StegnerStichwörter: perception marriage inequality husbands wives apology matrimony inferiority
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: sexuality empowerment gender men women morality feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality double-standards conduct-of-life social-norms
Utopianism also finds a receptive audience among the society's disenchanted, disaffected, dissatisfied, and maladjusted who are unwilling or unable to assume responsibility for their own real or perceived conditions but instead blame their surroundings, 'the system,' and others. They are lured by the false hopes and promises of utopian transformation and the criticisms of the existing society, to which their connection is tentative or nonexistent. Improving the malcontent's lot becomes linked to the utopian cause. Moreover, disparaging and diminishing the successful and accomplished becomes an essential tactic. No one should be better than anyone else, regardless of the merits or values of his contributions. By exploiting human frailties, frustrations, jealousies, and inequities, a sense of meaning and self-worth is created in the malcontent's otherwise unhappy and directionless life. Simply put, equality in misery -- that is, equality of result or conformity -- is advanced as a just, fair, and virtuous undertaking. Liberty, therefore, is inherently immoral, except where it avails equality.
Mark R. LevinStichwörter: inequality malcontents utopianism
Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the property he creates through his own labor, and to be treated impartially before a just law. Moreover, equality should not be confused with perfection, for man is also imperfect, making his application of equality, even in the most just society, imperfect. Otherwise, inequality is the natural state of man in the sense that each individual is born unique in all his human characteristics. Therefore, equality and inequality, properly comprehended, are both engines of liberty.
Mark R. LevinStichwörter: liberty equality inequality
Never having experienced inequality, therefore, the majority of straight white men will be absolutely oblivious to their own advantages – not because they must necessarily be insensitive, sexist, racist, homophobic or unaware of the principles of equality; but because they have been told, over and over again, that there is no inequality left for them – or anyone else – to experience – and everything they have experienced up to that point will only have proved them right.
Let the impact of that sink in for a moment.
By teaching children and teenagers that equality already exists, we are actively blinding the group that most benefits from inequality – straight white men – to the prospect that it doesn’t. Privilege to them feels indistinguishable from equality, because they’ve been raised to believe that this is how the world behaves for everyone. And because the majority of our popular culture is straight-white-male-dominated, stories that should be windows into empathy for other, less privileged experiences have instead become mirrors, reflecting back at them the one thing they already know: that their lives both are important and free from discrimination.
And this hurts men. It hurts them by making them unconsciously perpetrate biases they’ve been actively taught to despise. It hurts them by making them complicit in the distress of others. It hurts them by shoehorning them into a restrictive definition masculinity from which any and all deviation is harshly punished. It hurts them by saying they will always be inferior parents and caregivers, that they must always be active and aggressive even when they long for passivity and quietude, that they must enjoy certain things like sports and beer and cars or else be deemed morally suspect. It hurts them through a process of indoctrination so subtle and pervasive that they never even knew it was happening , and when you’ve been raised to hate inequality, discovering that you’ve actually been its primary beneficiary is horrifying – like learning that the family fortune comes from blood money.
Blog post 4/12/2012: Why Teaching Equality Hurts Men
Stichwörter: equality men inequality privilege culture
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
Mary WollstonecraftStichwörter: strength happiness empowerment equality gender men women feminism weakness self-determination misogyny hypocrisy inequality independence stereotypes flattery double-standards clichés dignity inferiority social-norms women-s-rights contempt
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till out political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich, - a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness.
Stephen Johnson FieldStichwörter: politics inequality capital
Bottom dogs have to be persuaded of the desirability of inequality.
William DonaldsonStichwörter: inequality underdog
L’editore mandò cento copie del volume, per tutto compenso dell’opera: il valore non superava quello dell’olio e del vino rubati in cantina; e il grosso pacco piombò in casa come un bolide sconquassatore. La madre ne fu atterrita, la sera gli girò attorno con la diffidenza spaventata di un cane che vede un animale sconosciuto: per fortuna Cosima ricordò che un suo cugino in terzo grado aveva una bottega di barbiere e spacciava giornali e riviste. Era un intellettuale anche lui, a modo suo, perché mandava la corrispondenza locale al Giornale del capoluogo: e la proposta di Cosima, di spacciare qualche copia del romanzo fu da lui accolta con disinteresse completo.
Ma per la scrittrice fu un disastro morale completo: non solo le zie inacidite, e i benpensanti del paese, e le donne che non sapevano leggere ma considerano i romanzi come libri proibiti, tutti si rivoltarono contro la fanciulla: fu un rogo di malignità, di supposizioni scandalose, di profezie libertine: la voce del Battista che, dalla prigione opaca della sua selvaggia castità urlava contro Erodiade era meno inesorabile.
Lo stesso Andrea era scontento: non così aveva sognato la gloria della sorella: della sorella che si vedeva minacciata dal pericolo di non trovare marito.
Stichwörter: women writing emancipation hypocrisy inequality gender-roles
He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces. This soul is full of shadow; sin is therein committed. The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow."
It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.
Stichwörter: education christianity inequality social-issues
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