Friday, April 19, 2013

Superiority

The topic of male superiority keeps coming across the feeds in an indirect way of late and it always makes the eyeballs roll in the back of the head. If only because one believes that the whole idea is a load of crock. Don't get one wrong, some people are superior to others. They are kinder, faster, (insert criterion of choice here), smarter or simply have better genes.  

Oddly enough being richer doesn't make a person superior in one's book. Even though some do seem to think that counts. Personally one thinks that is a different issue altogether, but that isn't what this is about. This is about the idea that one gender is superior to another and you will note that those criteria are not based on some nebulous gender role.

Overall men might be faster and stronger, but it doesn't always make them smarter. Now round here He is faster, smarter and generally superior in strength... apart from that little gym episode... but we don't talk about that. The reality is that in a gym one can out lift Him on some equipment. Of course He can move his mothers TV that weighs in at more than 50 kg while one struggles to lift an end of the damn thing.

This is offset by the fact that He is disorganised, unless it is something that really interests him, and completely oblivious to his environment. Now that is an area that one can shine in... when allowed. There are also those unfortunate squirrel genes that make Him something of a hoarder by nature... again an arena that one can manoeuvre in... eyes off His wardrobe once more
All of that doesn't make Him superior. It makes us differently abled and complimentary.

It also makes Him a perfectly normal flawed human being who can run one into the ground. He was blessed with that explosive speed thing...
Bastard!

4 comments:

ancilla_ksst said...

I suspect that I can run faster than my Master.... hmm, not that I'd every try to run off...

Dina said...

So ... if I've always been able to lift and carry more than most of the men surrounding me troughout life (and I'm generally smarter than most people I know)--does this make me a superiour to those who are, supposedly, "superiour in principle"? ;)

Master's piece said...

@Dina You are simply a super being and sharper than most :D

bloopet said...

The concept of "male superiority" is good for one thing. Trolling "Masters" in chatrooms. But then I am a male sub who likes to subvert everything they believe about the world :)