Chivalry is dead, and women killed it.

[Dave Byrd]

Pot calling the kettle black? Go back and re-read your own post. You have a plethora of people telling you that what you said is really messed up. Perhaps you should re-read what you said and think it over.

Daihashi, this and your last two posts were very good. I tried to positive-rep you but it says I have to spread some rep around first. I will come back to do so. You definitely deserve good rep on that.

I'm more and more convinced that the smartest, most interesting and perceptive people in the world are women. My female colleagues and the female nurses in our hospitals work with patients and see things on a whole different level than men do. It's amazing and it's a nice complement to the way we do business, and I appreciate it more the longer I witness it. Men are effective, too, obviously. It's the perception and intuitive nature they edge us on, I think.

My take is this:
Equality means that if a couple were to split up, each would still be able to maintain a respectable standard of living (without alimony, which doesn't count lol), but as a team, they bring each of their capabilities into a pretty nice existence that is at least the sum of its parts.
Equality means having your own assets and education independent of your partner.
It means splitting up responsibilities based upon what each person likes to do, and is good at, instead of 'because you are a man' or 'beacuse you are a woman'.

I hate washing dishes. I love cooking. My equal partner hopefully would be someone who thinks that loading the dishwasher is a good trade for a gourmet meal! I don't mind cleaning the bathtub, but can someone taller than me PLEASE deal with the shower curtain hangers so I don't break my damn neck?
See what I'm getting at?

Equality means a division of labor that does not cause resentment in either party.

This is one of the best explanations of equality I've ever read because it's practical and functional. Accurate, too.

I think equality in partnership or marriage is a give and take thing. It's not always totally equal, either. The boundaries move. Sometimes one person's carrying more of the load than the other, but it evens out in other ways. Successful pairings seem to depend on that flexibility so they can weather the rough patches like sickness versus health or poor versus rich, if that makes sense. I think that's why they put those words in wedding vows--to remind couples they've got to be flexible during the rough times.

Dave Byrd Reviewed by Dave Byrd on 08-15-2008. Chivalry is dead, and women killed it. I was idly surfing the boards when I saw the thread on Affirmative Action. In essence it was a thread on equality and fairness and what have you. That made me think about another instance of inequality in our society. I'm speaking, of course, about the division of men and women. I will freely admit that I frequently have my moments of EXTREME sexism, but I feel that that's largely because I haven't met too many really intelligent women or women that really have anything exciting or Rating: 5