Essay Two—Draft

A Feminist Issue

One day, while I was walking through the park, I saw a croud of women protesting. Geing a female myself, I decided to go over and listen to some words of wisdom. When I got within earshot, I was slightly amused: the protesters were “standing up” for womens rights. Never really being into the issue myself, I stood and listened for awhile. After only a few moments, I started to get disgusted by these women. Not only were they asking for equal rights, which is how it should be, they were also asking for better oprotunities and chances. These women were talking like they deserved to be treated better than men!

More and more I’ve come to realize that a lot of women are hypocrites when asking for equal rights. These women want jobs and positions without necisarly fitting the qualifications. Feminists always talk about being treated equally, yet, never have I heard a women defending herself when “women and children go first.” Also, women sometimes don’t realize that fighting for pro-choice birthrights for women and then fighting for equal rights between sexes is a hypocracy

Most laws are set for equality between sexes. When woment want “equal rights” in the work force, what I think they really want is better oprotunities in the job field. Woment fight hard for higher positioned jobs, and when rejected, they feel the rejection was based on the soul fact that they are female. Most women don’t see that men tend to be natural born leaders, and there body types allow them to do physical things with more ease. You can see the exceptions to these standards by the women who do have high positioned or high physical labored jobs.

I’ve only seen a women open the door for a man a few times, and that was when the women and man were just friends. So many of the old curtisy rules apply in todays society for men and women. Men open doors, allow the women to go first, helps her when when she’s struggling with something, and protects her. When does one see a women pull a chair out for her husband, or put the toilet seat up? Most feminists still expect these things from men, but demand to be treated equally. Even when men try to protect the women, the feminists still fight back. “Draft registration . . . is the only instance in which federal law explicitly treats men and women differently.” It’s no surprise that there are women who fight against this law too. Men argue, though, that “draft registration . . . is a symbol of the long standing attitude that men’s lives are more desposable and that women must be protected from harm.”

Women fight for pro-choice for women when it comes to pregnancy, but then go off and fight for equality between sexes. Men have no say what so ever in deciding weather a child is born, even if he is the father. A child is equally as much of the father as it is the mother, yet a father can’t decide if his child gets to live or not. At the same time feminists fight for equality. Men should be able to say, “Hey! Don‘t abort my child, I want to raise it and keep it.”

An old friend of mine use to always go off on womens rights. She wasn’t a hypocrate, though when my friend would go out on a date, she would pay for herself, open the door for her date is she was closer, and works extra harad for the positions she has. I know that there are some other feminists out there like here, truly fighting for equal rights between sexes, but the number is few.