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Gender Equality

Someone once said that “the sexual revolution was the best trick that man ever pulled on women.”
Women wanted to walk like men, talk like men, dress like men, smoke like men, drink like men, and work like men.
For the most part, it just made men respect them less- because now they had sunk to our level. But more importantly, now they all started going to work…and expected their men to start helping around the house.
Men, of course, never signed up for that, and so, they never did anything around the house. This led to the creation of a generation of workaholic, stressed out, wives and moms who simply can’t handle life.
It’s not their fault. But it’s not man’s fault either. It’s our fault.
For so long, men and women have tried so very hard to live without each other, simply because ‘the other way’ didn’t work. Like Marcus Buckingham says, “The opposite isn’t bad isn’t good. The opposite of bad is…not bad.”
Our greatest equality did not occur when we were completely dependent on each other.
Our greatest equality will not occur when we achieve complete independence of each other.
Our greatest equality will occur when we all adopt a spirit of partnership.
Partner with your spouse and do something great. Raise a family. Start a business. Launch a ministry. Plant a church. Build a great marriage.

February 24th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I agree that it is not about dependence or independence - both can be so unhealthy. Partnership is not a word used very often in daily language but it hits that nail on the head with gender equality.