The War Between the Sexes

As a female in her 70s whose male counterparts are the notorious “50s guys,” I am puzzled by the recent women’s empowerment news.

Male chauvinism was a ploy to intimidate women so they didn’t challenge the status quo. Male superiority was written into the Bible just to make sure we got the message that we were merely an afterthought.

Males have always known that their claims were phony even if they had never heard of Ashley Montagu, the British-American anthropologist who taught at Princeton, Harvard, New York University, and Rutgers. He also wrote 60 books on gender and race.

In his book The Natural Superiority of Women (1953,) Montagu proved that the biological evidence for female superiority can’t be disputed: “…the male is a sort of crippled female, a creature who by virtue of his having only one X chromosome is not so well equipped biologically.”

Facts:

Women are more intelligent. Women have better immune systems. Women are healthier. Women have more complex bodies. The Y chromosome has only 78 genes while the X chromosome has 800!!

The male sex has been able to dominate despite their false assertions and chromosomal limitations. But no longer. American power and prestige are in decline and survival no longer depends on the male’s greater size and strength. Now men are feeling insecure about their shaky status and embarrassed by their bad behavior. The statistics make it worse: nine out of ten prison inmates are of the male sex. Of the 11 mass shootings/terrorist attacks in 2017, how many of these were executed by a female? Obviously, the male species exhibits a serious lack of impulse control. And what’s that about female hormones hindering rational thinking…

But should we be angry at a biologically inferior sex? It’s really not their fault. Should we make them apologize for not having two X chromosomes??

What should the Superior Sex do besides being always vigilant?

Admit that we were understandably complicit with the myth of male superiority. Understand that what drives the male sex is their ever-present desire for female attention. Recognize that when we appear to be impressed, they advance. But if we aren’t, they retreat.

Let’s face it: Empowerment Conversations won’t change a thing. In fact, there’s no conversation. All the marches and messages and wristbands and matching apparels… are leading where? Are we making villains out of the “symptoms” just so we don’t have to look deeper and realize that we, too, are responsible? Our behaviors in and reactions to real-world situations determine how others treat and react to us.

Beyond outing the offenders, what is the long term plan? We are fighting the same old battle, only in different forms. Are we winning the War Between the Sexes? Or maybe the question should be:

Why does there need to be a winner?