Equality Isn't Equal

Well, hello. It's been a while. Mainly because I've had nothing to talk about really, and I'm not one of these people who write about anything and everything I ever experience.

However, it was on the news a few weeks ago that the Government in the UK were taking some flak from a bunch of Feminist nutjobs because some of the changes they made were percieved as being anti-feminist. All they did is get rid of a few of the people in the highest levels of government who they thought weren't pulling their weight and replace them with better candidates, but because they got rid of more women than they put back in, every Feminist from Land's End to John O'Groats were brandishing the pitchforks and torches at the news.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for gender equality and against discrimination, but these Feminist groups' idea of "equality" must be vastly different to mine. To me, equality means both sexes being treated equally. That people are accepted for jobs not because of if they possess a Y chromosome or not, but because of what skills they have. The clue is in the name, folks. It's not difficult.

Feminists, on the other hand, seem to think equality means a 50/50 split. That for every man, there should be a woman in the same level of power. And I think this is a complete and utter load of shit. In most cases, their idea of equality will not equate with mine. They're not totally incompatible, it's just that it only happens when the planets are perfectly aligned. The idea that somehow, there were more men who deserved to be installed in top offices in the Government than women is abhorrent to these types.

Think about it. Say you have 10 job vacancies. Feminists would want 5 of those to go to women. Now, what if, after assessing each applicant, you found that the 10 best candidates were all men? Most Feminists would want you to reject 5 of those and give those jobs to women. They would want you to reject them because of their gender, which is exactly the thing that they're trying to eliminate.

You know what that's called? It's called positive discrimination. So really, we're not working to eliminate discrimination at all. We're just trying to change it's target.