Immemorial Musing

Today was International Women’s Day. (March 8th)

The disrespect that women get, and have gotten for millennia, is absolutely ridiculous.

Women have to go through so much, and so many different things, that men will never have to deal with.

I hate judging groups of people. This isn’t complaining about all men. This is more about the general patriarchal history of humanity and how it still exists today, and how it baffles me.

First of all, I am a man, so I also don’t have to handle certain situations that women have go. I acknowledge that. However, I have always been an extremely empathetic person, and that has only evolved as I have grown older and as I have learned more about the world.

I have talked before about my hatred of life’s natural unfairness. It is discouraging to just think about it, and women’s history is the ultimate example of that. Religion, personally Christianity for my upbringing, oppresses women to a point where disagreeing with that is unfathomable.

What I want is true equality, it’s truly the only way I’d be happy with the world. But if it were anything else, life should be matriarchal. Women give and nurture life. Women handle more hardships biologically, which is part of the previously mentioned things that men won’t need to handle.

Instead, women have just been seen as servants throughout history.

Women would only be acknowledged as a man’s wife, and that’s just for married women. Forced arranged marriages, especially historically, like in royalty for the goals of peace or national gain, are disturbingly common. Stereotypical gender roles plague humanity as a whole, as men and women alike are expected to live a certain way, with women being seen only as servants to their husbands and mothers to their children.

There is the entire topic of the assault that women suffer from men, but I honestly don’t have it in me to go into detail right now. It is always devastating to hear about or think about, but it is definitely acknowledged as part of the history of women’s suffering.

The United States didn’t even grant women the right to vote until 1920, and that wasn’t even fully effective at first because of racial discrimination. That’s just the United States, and that’s just 1920. One hundred years ago. Imagine the rest of the world, currently and historically.

Admittedly, I do not know specific historical details of different societies, but the fact that the current world still has unfair treatment of women is disappointing.

This was obviously, and unfortunately, a very bleak discussion of women’s history, but women are strong, brave, and deserve respect and recognition. Many historical achievements have been made by women. Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Joan of Arc, and Cleopatra are just a handful of influential women that will be remembered forever. There is no doubt that many more amazing things will be done by women, with the bravery and perseverance that women have displayed time and time again.

-Immemorial Musing