The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

I don’t want to beat a long-dead horse, but I get a little uncomfortable whenever the issue of “gender equality” comes up. The problem, in my experience, is that it usually means “gender sameness.” I just received an invitation to a Gender Equality Festival in New York, but I get the feeling that rather than stressing the complementarity of the sexes it will strive to convince us all, very loudly, that there’s really no difference at all. This in and of itself is unhealthy, because the simple fact is that men are not women, and women are not men, as hard as that is for some so admit. Yet I fear that the message might be even more problematic than that, as it too often seems that beyond the “we are all completely the same” there lies a stronger message embodied by radical feminism. One problem this festival expects to oppose is a societally-imposed “hypermasculinity,” but I don’t think I’m being cynical in wondering if “hyper” was added as a PR move. This is not the feminism off the suffragists, but of those who would blur any and all lines between the sexes, only to thereafter assert female dominance. I find it telling that the sponsors of this event include pornography distributors, which I don’t quite see as compatible with true feminism. But then, what do I know? I’m just a man.