Gender equality

I have been considering what to write about for my March entry. I have been feeling uninspired, maybe because we are in the dead of winter (With some plus double digits in the middle to late February......). But today I had a really important revelation.

In a city in Australia, they have been making "gender equality" pedestrian walk signals. The person is now a female, noted by the standard skirt that we see for public washrooms. I actually felt offended, but I also know that there is a part of me that is very traditional, and that views women as, let's say, the fairer, sex. So for me, it really seemed like a downgrade, laughable, really.

It really got me into a head space, and I started wondering, why do I believe that women should be on the sidelines? Do I hate my own gender? 

And it hit me, this signage is actually sexist, because it denotes an age where women weren't even allowed to wear pants (so of course, we use the image of a skirt to indicate them).

I don't know any woman who wears dresses or skirts, other than maybe something casual during heatwaves. And I work in an office.

So I, being the know-it-all opinionated control freak that I am, with a side hope for fame through profile views, wrote a comment to the article. Actually, it really inspired me, because I had that "Ah-ha" moment. I typed, they should use breasts instead.

I realized, we ARE supposed to be on the sidelines, because our sexuality places us in a really vulnerable position. Breasts are used as a sex symbol, and in North America (I heard in Europe is more relaxed) it is illegal to even expose them. So what WOULD happen if we used breasts as the distinguishing symbol in society. What would happen? For me, it would remind me that my place is to play second to the man. Maybe I am being sexist, but I think if we called a spade a spade, and used our breasts, instead of some outdated dress, then we would be recognized that by our very nature, women are weaker than men because we can be overcome much more easily, both physically and by our wiring to be nurturing (and therefore more easily manipulated).

But I don't mean to belittle women, because what we lack in physical power, we more than make up for in psychic power, aka intuition. So let's start to level the field that way, instead of some embarrassing outward symbol that really does make us look like we don't belong.