Sunday, March 23, 2014

Masculinity, Sexuality, and Leadership

Something that really confuses me is this notion that men aren't to be blamed for their sexual desires and impulses towards women. That women "tempt" men to do such things or that men just can't help themselves. The fact that I might be wearing something might cause a man to act as if he were an impulsive animal is an insult. It's not an insult to me though. It's an insult to men. The fact that the idea of masculinity comes with powerful and uncontrollable sexual urges is appalling. Men are not animals. They are higher thinking, rational beings just as women are. Men have absolutely no excuse to say they can't control themselves. That's absolute garbage. In fact, I feel if this notion is true about men then we as a society should really question whether they should be holding leadership positions. I wouldn't want some impulsive and sexually crazed man in charge and making decisions. For all I know, he could be making decisions based off of his crazy lusts for certain women or rage that he didn't get a woman (because men are more aggressive too right?). If men are animals in that sense, they shouldn't be given the responsibilities of being in charge of things. Do you see how this would be entirely wrong to say men 1) are all uncontrollable sex demons that turn into beasts the way a werewolf can't deny the full moon, and 2) how it's wrong to take away the credibility of all men's leadership skills based off of this very disgusting, degrading, and untrue stereotype? Honestly, when you say women are too emotional, especially when their hormones are at higher levels, you're doing the same exact thing. Except this for some reason seems to be a reasonable argument for denying women leadership positions. Women, just like men, have control over their behaviors. They may have desires and emotions, but we have the ability to not act on them because of a thing called the frontal lobe. What's even more amazing is that both men and women have the ability to reflect on why they thought or felt what they did, question their motives, and correct them for the future. Wow. What a shocker. As if we have respect for ourselves and other human beings. Who would have ever thought that we, humankind, could ever have reached such unimaginable heights? -_- Seriously? Seriously..? Gender roles are crap. They cause people to revert their intelligence to something below that of what I consider a rational human being.

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