Players in the American women’s soccer team think they are entitled to be paid the same as players in the men’s team. Silly stuff. The pay of sportsmen and women is geared to how much revenue they bring in. Generally, women’s sporting teams bring in much less revenue than do the corresponding men’s teams. No discrimination, just business. Still, women suspect they are being treated unfairly and continue fighting for equality with men, which they have long since achieved. They would do better to join the feminist fight against transgender activists who pose the threat du jour. These activists really want to marginalise women; as would-be professional soccer playing women would find out if they had to compete with men in drag.
Ever wonder why women have equal status in the modern western world? Clearly, more status in the ABC if the preponderance of female reporters is any guide. And I still let them get on the bus first and am overly solicitous and considerate. Though a lady warden at my church, I’m treasurer, suggested one or two emails I had sent her were brusque. Mea culpa, I remember being irritated over something and perhaps being not as Christian-like as I should have been. Still, I reckon I’d have been less remorseful if a man had been the other party.
Is this deference on the part of men to women proper? I most definitely think it is. It is a sign of our peerless civilisation. Better by a country mile than any other that exists or which has ever existed. It’s a product of our Judeo-Christian roots, honed through centuries of Christianity and, importantly, through the Reformation, particularly in Britain – which, it should always be remembered with pride by those with British roots, took the lead in ridding the world of slavery, at least in the civilised western world.
Pretty sure that without Christianity and, therefore, without settlers from Christian Britain blessedly arriving on these shores in 1788, Australian Aboriginals would have become at some distinct risk of being enslaved at best. Stan Grant, Lidia Thorpe, Megan Davis, Noel Pearson, Chris Kenny, et al, take note.
Anyway back to women. Their equality hasn’t been without cost. In particular, their voting pattern has pushed politics leftwards, and that‘s been a dreadful development for human wellbeing. If left to women, no doubt, the Voice would get up. Luckily, we probably have sufficient number of male voters to kill off the racist proposition. Still, despite women’s skewed voting preferences, I would vote for universal franchise; albeit, for those aged twenty-one and over who (I’m daydreaming here) can show that they have paid (net) income taxes in at least two years or are legally married to someone who has. No sexual discrimination. All two taxpaying sexes included.
What keeps women equal? In a word men. Men brought up in a Christian culture. Mainly white men for most of the time. But what matters most is culture not race; and the influence of Christian culture, as, for example, in British India. Aboriginal women were apparently treated very badly by their menfolk in times gone by. Many still are, so we hear. That’s not too unusual in non-Christian cultures. Muslim women seem to have it tough. OK, they can drive now in Saudi Arabia, perhaps go scarf less in Iran if they’re willing to take a beating or two, and even go to primary school in Afghanistan.
The point is women are always a step away from subjection; as they’d find if Islam ever took over, as it resolutely aims to do. Outside the bounds of Christianity; that, so-called, ‘toxic masculinity’ tends to bubble up and hold sway. And it’s no accident that the ‘sisters of perpetual indulgence’ mock Christianity. Christianity, albeit less muscular than in days of old, is still a bulwark against the dissolution of society; of which gay pride and transgenderism are emblematic. Women don’t do well in dissolute societies.
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