Gender Wars

The gender wars has started. It has started in the kitchen and now it has spillover over from the private to the public sphere.  A few decades ago, it is given that men always rule the public sphere and women informally rule the private one. Women want to used men's institutions and their breast to take over the world

Men used guns and women used their breast and the legal system. You see that women can and will antagonize men into committing strange acts insofar that is within legal norms. But what they never realize is that men's weapons are meant for destruction- it always have the potential for that. Women's weapons are meant for nurturing and growth. In this case, women who used the legal system like for example the case of Silvio Berlusconi's case with a 18 year old prostitute- which I believed has happened many times before this- is really nothing more than a political gambit played on the poor young thing.

Women who invade your space is flirt, men who invade your space is harassment- simply because the victim is always the sufferer. Men who accused women of harassment is considered as a wuss and a wimp, women who accused men of even an inkling of anti-social behavior is considered as a sex maniac.

Present institutions are meant to control impulses, that of violence, lust and theft. These are mostly "male" like institutions. Can you imagine if a woman accuse a man of say sexual harassment just because he stare at her a second longer than usual. Potentially, all men will be criminals because that is under the Penal Code if we were to allow it. Let me give you another case of the legal institutions meant to control greed. The case of tort. This means that the law can and will accuse another person based on common law. This means that based on common practices and he/she caused harm based on shared norms- in this case a perpetrator- he/she can be sued for causing tort. There is no jail term but penalties can and will be jail term with it caused grievous harm.

Hence, in reality, even though superficially, a lot of countries have charter for women- a women's charter- potentially, the women can be countersued under tort provided she spread malicious rumors about the man. For example, a women seeks divorce and alimony from a her husband because of adultery. But she accused him of say rape in the household in the public, he can pay alimony and still counter sue the women for slander or libel. Of course that is the perspective from the man, I will leave the judicial powers aside.

Yes, it is true that women have been subjugated for a long time and it is time for some of payback. But unfortunately, the chair you are sitting is made by man who bought the land for the trees, paid for the capital equipment to mill it, and also send the log to the manufacturer before a craftsman or machine produce a mold out of it. Along the way, if a female woodcutter accuse another male woodcutter of sexual harassment without finding out the truth, there are also many ways to get the woman out of the way. She will make a mistake- regardless of whether it's a her or a he.

In sum, some middle class office worker dressed in Zara pencil skirt is really just vulnerable as this woodcutter. There is really no difference.

It's not the man's fault that you are born a woman. But we are just lucky, we are born men that's all. Sometimes you just have to suck it.