Cassowaries Rant

More Discrimination

Now in response to Mason’s post. He’ll probably stop posting on this topic because everything he says will be argued against or something… People have a habit of giving up on conversations, which rather bemuses and disappoints me.

It may be a transitional period in the 2000s now, but has anything really changed? Like a seesaw, the balance is shifting, but not to the middle - it’s just swung to the other end. You can’t have you cake and eat it too - there still isn’t equality in today’s society, the roles have merely been reversed.

There has been no swing. Men, I hope I made clear, have always suffered, and continue to suffer. Now we’re stereotyped too; so be it. Women are still not in the best position: when briefly flipping through the thing about high earners in the Age today, I noticed a dearth of females. In fact, I was surprised and then surprised at my surprise (metasurprised?) when I noticed a photo of one on the second spread.

As long as equality is defined as a monogendered culture, and as long as discriminations against one group don’t cancel out discriminations against another, there will be no equality. I think that in any group of more than a handful of people, there will inheritely be inequality. (I don’t necessarily think that we should therefore not work against any inequalities that we can, au contraire, but surprise at it I think is a waste of time.