And with it the tide of complaints, recriminations, accusations and claims in favor of women oppressed by the heteropatriarchy.
About three years ago, my oldest son was doing an internship. To use a specific and very special tool, they chose the best and most deserving, as is logical, and one of them was my son, but he could not use the particular tool because “one of the persons had to be a girl” and a girl with less merit, with less ability, passed ahead of him.
A few months ago, we learned from the newspapers that the army would lower the cut-off mark for girls. That is, your son who has an average of 12.5 can be left out and a girl who has a 12 can take his place.
And so on. But “women are oppressed, we are discriminated against and so on and so forth…” What a lack of shame! There have never been so many obvious and specific privileges in favor of anyone. On top of that, ignoring these privileges is tolerated and they just continue to complain.
And in all this, the man loses, obviously, as he is the one who is discriminated against and cannot complain for fear of being labeled a chauvinist. And the woman loses as well, since merits are no longer attributed to her; rather, her role is only to be “the one to meet the quota”, whether she is capable of doing a particular thing or not, of course.
They will talk about the wage gap, the glass ceiling, etc. without anyone asking the woman if the part-time contract, the leave of absence or the rejection of a specific position has been imposed or chosen, and without anyone considering that women are capable on their own of working, of choosing, of deciding, of progressing… that they do not need victimhood or paternalistic states.
In the end, once again, women are being used to justify ideologies with a certain tendency to undervalue them. And 8 March is a tool in the hands of these ideologies.
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