So good to see the other side of this being highlighted for once and in such a loving way (see video link). Children have a right to both parents. Both parents create the child and neither should be given preference purely based on gender.The fight for equal opportunities often overlooks areas where woman have an advantage and the automatic assumption by the legal system, that because women have a certain set of organs, they are better equipped to be parents is as ridiculous as saying men are better at running a company due to their anatomy. I dont support mens rights and I dont support womans right just as I dont support rights for white or black people etc because to me this is constantly reimposing the discrimination and segregation that it is supposed to be opposed to. Instead I support equal rights for all people! That means true balance and not levelling somethings and ignoring others. Simple as that. If you tell me someone is being hurt/mistreated you already have me concerned. You dont need to tell me their gender/age/race to get my attention. We continuously create divisions to make ourselves feel exclusive and better than others. We see it in the playground, at work or in groups of friends where certain people are selfishly excluded, solely to make the others feel not excluded. Then we create divisions at a local level between close towns/cities/suburbs. For example Vancouver/Surrey, Manchester/Liverpool, Greenock/Paisley. Often race and religion are horribly used to justify these trivial divisions. Then these rivals join up to form bigger divides, Canada/Quebec, USA/Canada, Scotland/England. A great example of this is when we use sporting teams as an excuse for these divisions. We have the local teams who, especially in Scotland, will be bitter rivals (think Rangers/Celtic) This is an example of religion being used to fuel an awful culture of hatred. Hate would not be an overstatement for how some feel and react to their opposing team and fans. But suddenly for national contests, these completely opposing groups join up to combine their hate and refocus it to a bigger common enemy. So for example when Scotland play England suddenly these local opposing teams feel they have something in common, wear the same football strip and can watch the same game and share a beer even though a week before and the following week they may be beating the crap out of each other. This is all based on whether they focus on what they have in common or choose to focus on the perceived differences between them. Everyone has a right to be treated fairly and this extends past the man made borders that people often use to excuse the separation and inequality we see around the world. Winning the lottery of which country youre born in is not something you earned or deserved, it was just pure luck. If you are fortunate enough to have, in essence, won this lottery. You should want to share those resources and opportunities with those less fortunate because that easily could have been you. The chances are if you look back far enough, your family were not from where you live either (and often arrived in a much more hostile fashion than nowadays we just didnt have youtube to highlight every incident). Just because it may have been 40/200/3000 years ago is irrelevant. They just happened to travel and look for a better opportunity for your family before people started fighting so hard to keep themselves insulated from the rest of the world. I sometimes wish wed find another planet and aliens because maybe that would be the big common enemy the world needs to unite us and recognize that were all living in the same big world. Those man made borders still disappear when we zoom out. History has proved that those borders will constantly shift but love is everlasting. So take a step back and look out for all people. Take comfort in the commonality, embrace the differences and enjoy the interest and excitement that variety creates. Dont just look out for the group you believe you belong in whether that be based on gender, race, religion, nationality. Thats a lonely resentful place. Dont have a VIP guestlist for those you accept in your life and then be frustrated when you come up against the same discrimination. Open your heart to all people you meet without any pre-requisites and see the world around you open up and become a better place as we tackle our problems together and not apart.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 18:39:42 +0000
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