Men control much of the power in the world, but women still control 100% of the vagina.
It’s not as male-dominated as it once was, but there are still more make CEOs and executives and politicians and other people who wield actual power.
FWIW, I hang out with my son all the time. I also work from home a lot, so I get to drop him off and pick him up from school from time to time. A lot of other fathers don’t get to do that though, because they have to go to their office.
That’s less than a 1% difference. Biologically, you don’t need an equal ratio of men to women.
No 107 men to 100 women is a 7% difference if you mean how many more men than women. Or it’s a 3.4% difference if you mean 51.7% boys are born vs 48.3%. Or it’s a 1.7% difference if you mean 1.7% more than half (though that seems an awkward use of difference).
The thread is getting unserious and I think some of you are missing the point.
You can’t just claim right off the bat men dominate the whole world to the point where women appear in nothing or don’t get the attention.
Domination is not a zero sum game. No one is claiming that women have no power or influence, just that men historically and currently have more power and influence.
Things have changed in the past fifty years … remember that Jackie Kennedy looked straight into the camera during the 1960 Presidential campaign and stated her only job was to serve her husband and that she was nothing without him … JFK carried the woman’s vote that year …
How many great Hollywood movies have only one woman in them … Casablanca, The Quiet Man, etc etc etc …
Only 11 woman served in the US Senate during this country’s first 200 years … that’s half the number currently sitting … and 22 out of 100 is still a national disgrace IMEIO …
There’s places in this world right now where women are never treated as adults … Until very recently, women couldn’t vote, couldn’t drive and couldn’t be seen outside their homes without being accompanied by their husband/father/brother … or the police will cut their heads off right there in the street …
There’s a billion Roman Catholics in the world who honestly believe women are completely unqualified to be priests …
Even I’m old enough to remember when a man’s wife was considered his personal property … and if he wanted to beat her to death then that was his own affair … and none of ours …
Is this the man’s fault? … I don’t know … ask all the women who voted for The Donald …
There were more than just one female character in The Lord of the Rings … but at no time in the movies or books did two women have a conversation … think about it … women never talked to each other in Middle Earth …
This makes no sense. A safety belt that would easily cut into a woman’s neck would also easily cut into a man’s neck. There’s no difference in the way the seatbelt goes over my wife’s shoulder than it does mine. None.
That 5 inch difference seems like it would be just about right to put the belt right across the neck. But there are short men, too. In a male-dominated world I’d think they would be given a little more consideration.
But compare that to the opression men of color faced through history.
for black men they make up the majority of people in prison, and it aint even close, not to mention the history of segregation, lynching, jim crow, and the racial wage gap…sexism is not nearly as big an issue in america as racism
Black men still are struggling to have good graduation rates as well and still have a very low life expectancy.
Women don’t forcefully want to be in politics anyways
Say to the Sharia Law advocates
Who the heck wants to see gender-specific films anwyays?
Yet most abuse shelters only allow women in in the West.
Heck, The vote was consolidated to the household back then, usual heads of the household were believed to be them men, or so I’m told
and yet still women’s suffrage began in 1919, black men by and large could not vote, at least in the south…that is where the voting rights ac of the 60s came through.
I mentioned in the OP that it was at its strongest around those times so not sure why you brought up Lord of the Rings example
Men are often portrayed stupidly in television commercials. I always figured it was indicative that women make the majority of household purchasing decisions.