Nevertheless, I still prefer being female.

[Alexandra Wirth]

Although women are still underprivileged in many aspects today, I really
believe: men's life is hard.

What has been haunting in our minds for centuries is still engrained
part of our subconscious mind: women are not so much important for
menkind's getting on that their mistakes and misbehaviour must be
criticized. On the other hand men are the pillar of society's progress
and therefore have to be productive and adjusted.

A girl that preferes playing with construction toys may earn amazed
glances or mockery at the worst, in most cases she will be approved for
her untypical preferences today. A woman who rides a motorcycle is
unusal but will be looked upon as exotic person at the worst; a man who
attends ballet lessons with passion will arouse uncomfortable feelings
within the most of us if not the suspicion to be some sort of strange
mind. Every proper porn contents it's woman-loves-woman scene, gay
scenes are etremely rarely welcomed.

Men are much stricter forced to play their role than women are. There an
actually negative thing (i.e. that women are not socially relevant) has
turned to at least one advantage for women.

This means, that women should profit by the opportunities they get out
of this aspect of their social status. A man who leads a life of
adjusted behaviour within the prescribed patterns may have not learned
to think twice (men's upbringing and education unfortunately is much
more single-track than women's education); on the other hand, a woman
who leads such a life has not taken advantage of the benefits of her
opportunities and therefore must be too lazy or too stupid to look
further than to the edge of her little private life.

Although women are still socially second-class their personal
development is far ahead of men's. It's about time for men to
emancipate. Then they will understand at last that only a man who is not
emancipated fears women's liberation because it takes away from him the
social casting he diverts his self-portrait from because he has no other
possibility to define himself.

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Cassandra
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